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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard: A Novel in Three Partsdi Hideo Levy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Levy Hideo is reputed to be, as his translator (from Japanese to English) puts it, "the first white American novelist to write in Japanese." That being the case, it's hard not to wonder how many reviewers will trot out Samuel Johnson's line in their reviews of A Room Where the Star Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard. The amazing thing about this novel is not, however, that it was done at all, but that it was done so well. The premise—young American male finding himself in Japan—has been done and done again, but Levy makes it new in that his protagonist does not, as most of these fish-out-of-water do, experience Japan as a means of getting in touch with his inner American, but rather repudiates the America where Kennedy has been murdered and that is sinking deeper into the Vietnam debacle. He finds himself between two cultures, but listing decisively toward the Japanese. Levy's prose, rendered in English by Christopher D. Scott, is striking, as are the images he sprinkles throughout the book's pages. Let's hope people can get past their "wow, look, a monkey riding a bicycle" reactions, and see this for what it is: a novel worth reading.
One is certain that more than a few reviewers of Levy Hideo's "A Room Where The Star Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard" will trot out Samuel Johnson's oft-quoted line: "A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard is the highly acclaimed, moving debut of Levy Hideo (also known as Ian Hideo Levy), a white American author living in Japan who writes fiction and nonfiction in Japanese. Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, which include student protests against the Vietnam War and the U.S.-Japan Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty (AMPO), the novel tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict au Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)895.6Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages JapaneseClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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