Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent--and controversial--novelists in Japan today. She bursted onto the scene in 1985 with her short nove...
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Sep 03, 2009
Illa
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Ейми Ямада присъства в повечето алманаси, представящи съвременната японска литература пред англоезичните читатели. Ейми Ямада има голям успех сред западната публика, въпреки че е упреквана в подражателство на култови за нейното поколение американски автори. Разгеле, като казах "поколение": разправят, била от поколението Х, дето си падало по ъндърграунда, дрогата и непукизма. Вярно, признават, че констатацията важи за героите й, пък Ейми Ямада си знае дали и тя е в кюпа. А тя дори не се
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Feb 15, 2010
Veronika
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There are 3Eimi Yamada´s short novel from 1985-1986 in this book. The first, Bedtime eyes, is about heroine´s love for black American soldier nicknamed Spoon, who is sometimes very tender and sometimes very violent toward her. He is very sexy for her and she loves his body, but she learn very slowly to love him (his soul and mind, his behaviour). She manages this at last, but he is deserter from his army base and he is taken into prison for desertion. She is devasted and she swears she will be l
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May 16, 2009
Eric
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Can't rate a book like this on a one-dimensional scale. I haven't finished it, may not. Finished the title story and one other (there's a third I'm not going to read.) The writing is so-so. Sex, abusive sex, and . . . sex.
Reviews made a great deal of the fact that the protagonist’s love interest is black. Blurbs I’ve read here and there about the author, Eimi Yamada, make it seem that “interracial” themes are big with her. Her black characters are soldiers and sailors in an unnamed More...
Reviews made a great deal of the fact that the protagonist’s love interest is black. Blurbs I’ve read here and there about the author, Eimi Yamada, make it seem that “interracial” themes are big with her. Her black characters are soldiers and sailors in an unnamed More...
May 30, 2011
Gary
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I didn't expect it to be quite this dirty! But there is far more to this book than violent sex - especially with the last story of the collection.
Dec 28, 2007
Akemi
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Pretty darn offensive. Even I would have to drop the "r" word. Oh, those Nihonjin....
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