DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja

A Donald Keene Anthology

Donald Keene author J Thomas Rimer editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Published:7th Jun '96

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja cover

The preeminent Western authority on Japanese literature a presents a collection of personal essays and literary vignettes that offers a fresh and personal insight into his prolific career as a writer and translator, traveler and social observer.

This non-fiction hardback, "The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja" from Donald Keene & J Thomas Rimer, was published 7th June 1996 by Columbia University Press.

Reflections include personal experience, from wartime to the present [of Japanese society and culture]; travel in Japan; and naturally, some brilliant pieces on literature and language... The dozen or so chapters on travel in Japan are positively exhilarating... Equally, the most devoted and knowledgeable admirer of Kyoko will find new insights of value here... The essays... would be hard to match for depth of interpretation and clarity of exposition. Asian Affairs

ISBN: 9780231103404

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages