Ruri Pilgrim (Libri)

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Ruri Kumoi Pilgrim crea romanzi che approfondiscono l'intricato arazzo della connessione umana attraverso uno spettro di paesaggi culturali. Le sue narrazioni sono spesso intrise di un profondo senso di empatia e un occhio acuto per le sottili dinamiche che definiscono le nostre relazioni. Attraverso una prosa evocativa, invita i lettori a riflettere su temi universali di appartenenza, identità e la ricerca di significato in un mondo sempre più interconnesso. Il suo lavoro offre una prospettiva distintiva, plasmata da esperienze globali e una profonda comprensione dello spirito umano.

Fish of the Seto inland sea

432pagine
16 ore di lettura

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Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with the formality and security of the arrangements of life for a Japanese middle-class family, living in a walled compound with their servants, following exactly the tradition inherited from their parents, with marriages arranged for the children, which continued up until World War II. By then her mother was married to an engineer and living in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. That period is marked by her mother's often funny, painful experiences of learning about the Chinese and Russians with whom she now lived with her growing family, and the war seen from her point of view. At the end of the war, the Japanese - women, children, everyone - had to escape, walking hundreds of miles to the coast. The family returned to a Tokyo where the society, the culture, the economy was entirely overturned. The Americans were everywhere, the Japanese were unemployed, and the ways of society that they had all known had vanished. And yet somehow Ruri's indomitable mother survived.