Author : Nobuo Kojima
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564784056
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Book Synopsis Embracing Family by : Nobuo Kojima
Download or read book Embracing Family written by Nobuo Kojima and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the U.S. Occupation following World War II, Embracing Family is a novel of conflict--between Western and Eastern traditions, between a husband and wife, between ideals and reality. At the opening of the book, Miwa Shunsuke and his wife are trapped in a strained marriage, subtly attacking one another in a manner similar to that of the characters in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? When his wife has an affair with an American GI, Miwa is forced to come to terms with the disintegration of their relationship and the fact that his attempts to repair it only exacerbate the situation. An award-winning novel, critics have read this book as a metaphor of postwar Japanese society, in which the traditional moral and philosophical basis of Japanese culture is neglected in favor of Western conventions.