Sara Backer Libri
Questa autrice esplora incontri culturali e crescita personale attraverso le sue opere. La sua prosa e la sua poesia attingono spesso dai suoi estesi viaggi e dalla profonda contemplazione del mondo che ci circonda. Si concentra sul potere della narrazione e sulla bellezza del linguaggio, ambientando frequentemente le sue storie in contesti di contrasto culturale. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una voce forte che approfondisce le complessità dell'esperienza umana.
American Fuji
- 416pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how.) Alex has come to this utterly foreign place to find the truth, and now Gaby is serving as his translator and guide. The key to mastering Japanese, she keeps telling him, is understanding what's not being said. And in this "deft and delightful"* novel, the unsaid truths about everything from work and love to illness and death cast a deafening silence -- and tower in the background like Mount Fuji itself.
Fuji-san
- 380pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Een Amerikaan wordt ondergedompeld in de mysteries van de Japanse taal en cultuur als hij probeert uit te vinden hoe zijn zoon die in Japan studeerde, is gestorven.