An I-novel

• Verfasst von: Mizumura, Minae [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: An I-novel
• Mitwirkende: Carpenter, Juliet Winters [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Werktitel: Shishōsetsu from left to right
• Verf.angabe: Minae Mizumura ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter in collaboration with the author
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: pages cm
• Weitere Titel: 私小説
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19212-5
• ISBN: 978-0-231-54966-0
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19213-2
• Sprache: jpn eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Mizumura, Minae, 1951 - : An I-novel. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Rezensiert in: Schelletter, Christopher: Ein Text für jedes Feld?
• K10plus-PPN: 1702983463

Abstract

"A semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades but turned her back on the English language and American culture. After a phone call from her older sister reminds her that it is the twentieth anniversary of their family's arrival in New York, she spends the day reflecting in solitude and over the phone with her sister about their life in the United States, trying to break the news that she has decided to go back to Japan and become a writer in her mother tongue"--