The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito
OVERVIEW
Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.
The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society.
Ito has been described as a “shaman of poetry” because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera—part poetry, part prose, part epic—a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering.
PRODUCT INFO
- Publisher : Stone Bridge Press (January 10, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 300 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1737625326
- ISBN-13 : 978-1737625322
- Item Weight : 1.17 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches