A True Novel: A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

By Minae Mizumura

Book Overview

A remaking of Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success--despite racial and class prejudice--and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. A True Novel then widens into an examination of Japan's westernization and the emergence of a middle class. The winner of Japan's prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590512030
• ISBN13: 9781590512036
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Other Press
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.9" x 5.6"