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Polite Lies : On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100449004287

ISBN-139780449004289

eBay Product ID (ePID)1049285

Product Key Features

Book TitlePolite Lies : on Being a Woman Caught between Cultures

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies

Publication Year1999

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorKyoko Mori

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.4 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-096969

Reviews"A small universe of memory and reflection, analysis and synthesis, presented with an artist's touch." --The Boston Sunday Globe "A BEAUTIFUL BOOK . . . Her prose has the deceptive simplicity of a Japanese garden. By itself, each element seems to be plain and unadorned, but, in combination, the effect is stunning." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Kyoko Mori is "uniquely qualified to write at an intersection many have visited but few have truly understood." --The Washington Post Book World

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal305.48/8956073/092 B

SynopsisIn this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.