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Book Description
A dazzling debut novel by the prize-winning author of Yellow, set in the unique and exotic nightworld of Tokyo.
Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sadContinue
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thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010
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Country of Origin By Don Lee
Japan may possess the world's greatest disparity between public decorum and private perversity. This darker side of Japanese life is explored in Country of Origin, the first novel by Ploughshares editor Don Lee. The plot centers around the disappeara ... (read full critics)
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Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback 315 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 039332706X
- ISBN-13: 9780393327069
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Pub date: Apr 01, 2005
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| 9780393327069 | Paperback | $13.95 | $11.18 | bn.com |
| $13.95 | $10.68 | The Book Depository | ||
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The Best Reviews: Don Lee, Country of Origin
"Interesting Japanese police procedural" In 1980 University of Berkley graduate student Lisa Countryman, a half-Japanese, half-black American, conducts her dissertation research in Tokyo on the brutal societal conformity of bar girls. Lisa also has a ... (read full critics)