Buy this book on-line Oliva, Peter : The City of YesMcClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1999 ISBN 0771068611
"Advanced Reading Copy from uncorrected proofs" Alive with history, myth and wonder, The City of Yes is a luminous novel of parallel journeys through old and present-day Japan. In Saitama to teach English, the narrator is confronted by unlikely visions of home as he gradually enters the world of contemporary Japan, with its floating stories, enigmas, and contradictions. His own story is deftly interwoven with that of a real-life nineteenth-century Canadian adventurer, whose strange confinement in a Japanese prison, beginning in 1848, is so vividly imagined by the narrator. Full of delightful tales and eccentric characters, and written with the delicacy of a brushstroke artist, The City of Yes is suffused with warm humour, and with the intelligence and curiosity of a keen observer of life's riches and eccentricities. The City of Yes won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 1999.. 335p.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Oliva, Peter : The City of Yes. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, atlases, out of print books, out-of-print books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |