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- Book Title
- Heaven and Hell : a Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood
- Publication Name
- Heaven and Hell
- Title
- Heaven and Hell
- Subtitle
- A Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood
- Translator
- Phyllis Birnbaum
- Contributor
- Phyllis Birnbaum (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780824876555
- ISBN
- 9780824876555
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Fiction
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Asia / China, Biographical, Historical
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 30/09/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Takarabe Toriko's autobiographical novel Heaven and Hell is a beautiful, chilling account of her childhood in Manchukuo, the puppet state established by the Japanese in northeast China in 1932. As seen through the eyes of a precocious young girl named Masuko, the frontier town of Jiamusi and its inhabitants are by turns enchanting, bemusing, and horrifying. Takarabe skillfully captures Masuko's voice with language that savors Manchukuo's lush forests and vast terrain, but violence and murder are ever present, as much a part of the scenery as the grand Sungari River. Masuko recounts the "Heaven" of her early life in Jiamusi, a place so cold in winter her joints freeze as she walks to school. She accepts this world, with its gentle ways and terrible brutality, because it is the only home she has known. Masuko feels at ease wandering among the street vendors hawking their hot and sticky steamed cakes or watching the cook slaughter ducks for dinner, and takes pleasure in following the routines of her Chinese, Russian, and Japanese neighbors. Her world is shattered in 1945, when she and her family must flee their adopted home and struggle, along with other Japanese settlers, to return to Japan. This second half of the book, the "Hell" of refugee life, is heartbreaking and disturbing, yet described with ferocious honesty.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824876555
ISBN-13
9780824876555
eBay Product ID (ePID)
243030352
Product Key Features
Book Title
Heaven and Hell : a Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood
Original Language
Japanese
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Asia / China, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl862.A424134t4613
Reviews
Toriko's novel is a powerful evocation of a period in which Japanese colonists, Russian hunters and merchants, Communist Chinese agents, Indigenous local populations and Chinese urban elites co-existed in an awkward, frontier-style peace . . . Heaven and Hell packs a powerful punch. Toriko succeeds remarkably in reconstructing her child's-eye perspective of life in the colonial settlements and then the war. . . . Heaven and Hell is an important read: a superb autobiographical novel depicting a still controversial period of Asian history, and a poignant portrayal of colonialism and the myriad tyrannies of which its legacy is comprised, all contained within an intelligent, compelling, perfectly crafted child's-eye narrative., This 2005 novel, recently translated into English for the first time, provides the key to Toriko Takarabe's poetry and childhood, both of which were defined by Japan's brief colonial adventure in Manchuria. . . . A powerful and important book., This 2005 novel, recently translated into English for the first time, provides the key to Toriko Takarabe's poetry and childhood, both of which were defined by Japan's brief colonial adventure in Manchuria. . . . The images of death are powerful and terrifying . . . Equally dark is the psychological portrait of the child Masuko descending into a self-centered struggle for survival, scrounging for scraps among corpses. A powerful and important book., [In one scene] the details, including the smells in the room, are then piled on one after the other with sickening realism, but this is how Takarabe writes: the rawness of the prose stresses the brutality, and when we realize that this is an eleven-year old experiencing these things and remembering them so graphically at such a distance in time, the fact that these people are Japanese no longer matters. This is refugee life at its worst. . . . Takarabe's effectiveness as a writer lies in her description of contrasts and her understanding of what happens in a child's mind as she experiences various things.
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2018-007916
Dewey Decimal
895.635
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
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