Masuji ibuse biography of william

  • Ibuse Masuji was born into an old family of independent farmers; he was the second son of a Hiroshima landowner.
  • Masuji Ibuse (井伏 鱒二) was a Japanese novelist.
  • Masuji Ibuse is active/lives in Jordan.

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    Salamander and Other Stories

    June 6, 2024
    This is the book that first got me into Japanese writing. A gift from an older school-friend soon after I left high school, this beautifully-produced little Kodansha paperback of subtle, humorous, painstakingly-crafted stories slowly wormed its way into my heart over several years to become one of my most prized possessions. Man, it's a gas! The first story, 'Plum Blossom By Night', sets the tone: a miniature tour-de-force of social observation, it concerns a too-polite narrator who is accosted in the street late one night by a bloodied drunk who convinces our hero to become a witness to a hypothetical assault. The atmosphere is dreamlike, with a subtlety only the Japanese (Soseki being another example) can muster, and the ramifications continue long after the story is over. It's hilarious, sad, disturbing, intriguing - all the things a good story should be - and in its own quiet way fully the equal of Borges, Poe or Kafka. Of the other 8 st

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    Black Rain

    Masuji Ibuse's classic 1965 novel "Black Rain" takes readers into the everyday lives of a family poisoned by radiation sickness. The narrative structure carefully balances between the present time of the novel and journal entries from the bombings of okänt to craft a carefully wrought masterpiece of how great tragedy begets an unending spool of unraveling quieter tragedy.

    Black Rain, bygd Masuji Ibuse Translated by John Bester.
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    Four years after World War II, Yasuko finally has a chance at a normal life — marriage to a young man from a good family. Her earlier marriage prospects were consistently defeated by a rumor that she suffers from radiation sickness, despite a clean bill of health. And when her newest suitor requests proof of her whereabouts during the bombing, another spoiled marriage agreement seems imminent.

    Yasuko's uncle, Shigematsu Shizuma, asks his wife to copy out Yasuko's journal as proof that she was not exposed, and Ibuse

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