Endo, Shusaku
by When I Whistle
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0800882431
- ISBN 13
- 9780800882433
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About This Item
New York. 1979. Taplinger. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0800882431. Translated from the Japanese by Van C. Gessel. 273 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - When I Whistle' is a rich and absorbing novel set in two worlds- the world of pre-War Japan and the contemporary one of a big hospital with its professional rivalries. Ozu, a middle-aged businessman, has a chance encounter which brings back haunting memories. As Ozu recaptures the past, the reader is caught in the spell of a simpler and more humane time. In perfect couterpoint the story unfolds as Ozu relives the past while his son Eichi, a young house surgeon, pursues his ambitious and materialistic machinations to unseat his rivals. Gradually, the past and the present converge in a powerful and moving climax. inventory #3080 ISBN: 0800882431.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3080
- Title
- Endo, Shusaku
- Author
- When I Whistle
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0800882431
- ISBN 13
- 9780800882433
- Publisher
- Taplinger Pub. Co
- Place of Publication
- Marlboro, Nj, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1979
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