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2 Novels by David Joiner
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.11 MB / 2.5 MB
Overview: David Joiner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Earlham College and majored in Japanese Studies. In 1991 he made his first trip to Japan - a five-month study program in Sapporo – and three years later moved for the first of seven times to Vietnam. In Vietnam he has lived in Bien Hoa, Hanoi, HCMC, and Mui Ne; in Japan he has called Sapporo, Akita, Fukui, Tokyo, and Kanazawa home at different times.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Kanazawa
In Kanazawa, the first literary novel in English to be set in this storied Japanese city, Emmitt’s future plans collapse when his wife, Mirai, suddenly backs out of negotiations to purchase their dream home. Disappointed, he’s surprised to discover Mirai’s subtle pursuit of a life and career in Tokyo, a city he dislikes.
Harmony is further disrupted when Emmitt’s search for a more meaningful life in Japan leads him to quit an unsatisfying job at a local university. In the fallout, he finds himself helping his mother-in-law translate Kanazawa’s most famous author, Izumi Kyoka, into English.
While continually resisting Mirai’s efforts to move to Tokyo, Emmitt becomes drawn into the mysterious death thirty years prior of a mutual friend of Mirai’s parents. It is only when he and his father-in-law climb the mountain where the man died that he learns the somber truth, and in turn discovers what the future holds for him and his wife.
Packed with subtle literary allusion and closely observed nuance, with an intimacy of emotion inexorably tied both to the cityscape and Japan’s mountainous terrain, Kanazawa reflects the mood of Japanese fiction in a fresh, modern incarnation.
Lotusland
Nathan Monroe is a 28-year-old American living in Saigon who falls in love with a poor but talented Vietnamese painter. When he fails to protect their love from her desperate chase for a better life in America, his safety net appears in the form of Anthony, an old domineering friend in Hanoi who hires Nathan at his real estate firm. Only much later does Nathan discover that Anthony has intended all along for him to take over his job and family so that he, too, can escape and start his life over in America. Lotusland dramatizes the power imbalances between Westerners living abroad and between Westerners and Vietnamese - in love and friendship, in the consequences of war, and in the pursuit of dreams.
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Kanazawa
https://upfiles.com/YN1BLZY0
https://rg.to/file/c5f0d3b019373a44f26e211a889443dc
Lotusland
https://www.up-4ever.net/5rijp6lpnaxl
https://rg.to/file/b5ebae222b0896cbe6006e101a9f4d95
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2.11 MB / 2.5 MB
Overview: David Joiner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Earlham College and majored in Japanese Studies. In 1991 he made his first trip to Japan - a five-month study program in Sapporo – and three years later moved for the first of seven times to Vietnam. In Vietnam he has lived in Bien Hoa, Hanoi, HCMC, and Mui Ne; in Japan he has called Sapporo, Akita, Fukui, Tokyo, and Kanazawa home at different times.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Kanazawa
In Kanazawa, the first literary novel in English to be set in this storied Japanese city, Emmitt’s future plans collapse when his wife, Mirai, suddenly backs out of negotiations to purchase their dream home. Disappointed, he’s surprised to discover Mirai’s subtle pursuit of a life and career in Tokyo, a city he dislikes.
Harmony is further disrupted when Emmitt’s search for a more meaningful life in Japan leads him to quit an unsatisfying job at a local university. In the fallout, he finds himself helping his mother-in-law translate Kanazawa’s most famous author, Izumi Kyoka, into English.
While continually resisting Mirai’s efforts to move to Tokyo, Emmitt becomes drawn into the mysterious death thirty years prior of a mutual friend of Mirai’s parents. It is only when he and his father-in-law climb the mountain where the man died that he learns the somber truth, and in turn discovers what the future holds for him and his wife.
Packed with subtle literary allusion and closely observed nuance, with an intimacy of emotion inexorably tied both to the cityscape and Japan’s mountainous terrain, Kanazawa reflects the mood of Japanese fiction in a fresh, modern incarnation.
Lotusland
Nathan Monroe is a 28-year-old American living in Saigon who falls in love with a poor but talented Vietnamese painter. When he fails to protect their love from her desperate chase for a better life in America, his safety net appears in the form of Anthony, an old domineering friend in Hanoi who hires Nathan at his real estate firm. Only much later does Nathan discover that Anthony has intended all along for him to take over his job and family so that he, too, can escape and start his life over in America. Lotusland dramatizes the power imbalances between Westerners living abroad and between Westerners and Vietnamese - in love and friendship, in the consequences of war, and in the pursuit of dreams.
Download Instructions:
Kanazawa
https://upfiles.com/YN1BLZY0
https://rg.to/file/c5f0d3b019373a44f26e211a889443dc
Lotusland
https://www.up-4ever.net/5rijp6lpnaxl
https://rg.to/file/b5ebae222b0896cbe6006e101a9f4d95
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