A True Novel
About the Book
A True Novel
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.
A True Novel
- Publication Date: November 12, 2013
- Genres: Fiction
- Paperback: 880 pages
- Publisher: Other Press
- ISBN-10: 1590512030
- ISBN-13: 9781590512036