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The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan
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Absorbing fiction from Outsiders in a land that does not absorb foreigners easily.
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Paperback, 360 pages
Published
1998
by Stone Bridge
(first published 1997)
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I enjoyed reading pieces by well-known writers from back in the day such as David Lazarus, Edward Seidensticker and Donald Richie. Some of the authors are still writing, including Alex Kerr, Holly Thompson and Leza Lowitz. This anthology does suffer from what many such collections do: the repetition of similar themes and first-person stories, many thinly veiled as fiction. It is explained quite well in the introduction why this dominant theme of the foreigner in Japan is so pervasive, and even u
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I really appreciated the variety of this anthology. The writers were famous and hitherto unknown to me, male and female, immediate post-war to my contemporaries. Their characters were also diverse: men and women, Japanese, American, French, Australian, German, young and old, in international marriages, marriages to their own countrymen, single, divorced. There were English teachers and members of the armed forces, but also business people, a potter, and a podiatrist. Some stories emphasized asp
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Some stories were good; others not so.
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