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A room where the Star-Spangled Banner cannot be heard: a novel in three parts

Name: A room where the Star-Spangled Banner cannot be heard: a novel in three parts
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ISBN: 9780231157445

Levy, Hideo

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Levy Hideo is the pen name of Ian Hideo Levy. He is the first Westerner to become a novelist in Japanese. Born in 1950 to a Jewish father and a Polish mother, he spent his childhood in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He taught Japanese literature at Princeton and Stanford, and received a National Book Award for his translations from the ancient poetry anthology, Man’yōshū (The Ten Thousand Leaves). Since moving to Tokyo in 1990, he has published more than a dozen volumes of fiction and nonfiction spanning America, Japan and China. The winner of numerous Japanese literary and cultural awards, including the prestigious Osaragi Prize, he has become a major international voice in contemporary Japanese literature. Christopher D. Scott was born in the United States but attended high school in Japan. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an assistant professor of Japanese and Japanese literature at Macalester College.

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Columbia University Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0231157444

ISBN 13:

9780231157445