Chorus of Mushrooms

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781927063491

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Winner of the Commonwealth Writers&#8217;&#10;Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)!</b></p><p><b>Co-winner&#10;of the Canada-Japan Book Award!</b><br></p><p>Hiromi&#10;Goto&#8217;s debut novel has become a Canadian classic. It is a powerful narrative of&#10;three generations of Japanese Canadian women on the Canadian&#10;prairies.</p><p>Funny, scandalous, and melancholic, this&#10;superlative narrative is filled with echoes and retellings, memories and&#10;Japanese folk tales. From <i>The Tale of Genji</i> to the Calgary&#10;Stampede, from sharing of recipes to hitchhiking the Trans-Canada highway, it&#10;weaves a story that slides between histories, countries, and desire. It is a&#10;timeless exploration of immigration and belonging.</p><p>This&#10;twentieth anniversary reprinting of the landmark novel includes an Afterword by&#10;Larissa Lai (<i>When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl</i>) and an&#10;interview with the author.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Winner of the Commonwealth Writers&#8217;&#10;Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)!</b></p><p><b>Co-winner&#10;of the Canada-Japan Book Award!</b><br></p><p>Hiromi&#10;Goto&#8217;s debut novel has become a Canadian classic. It is a powerful narrative of&#10;three generations of Japanese Canadian women on the Canadian&#10;prairies.</p><p>Funny, scandalous, and melancholic, this&#10;superlative narrative is filled with echoes and retellings, memories and&#10;Japanese folk tales. From <i>The Tale of Genji</i> to the Calgary&#10;Stampede, from sharing of recipes to hitchhiking the Trans-Canada highway, it&#10;weaves a story that slides between histories, countries, and desire. It is a&#10;timeless exploration of immigration and belonging.</p><p>This&#10;twentieth anniversary reprinting of the landmark novel includes an Afterword by&#10;Larissa Lai (<i>When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl</i>) and an&#10;interview with the author.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;