Ruri Pilgrim (Livres)

Ruri Pilgrim Livres

Ruri Kumoi Pilgrim crée des romans qui explorent la tapisserie complexe de la connexion humaine à travers un éventail de paysages culturels. Ses récits sont souvent empreints d'un profond sens de l'empathie et d'un regard vif sur les subtiles dynamiques qui définissent nos relations. Par une prose évocatrice, elle invite les lecteurs à réfléchir sur des thèmes universels d'appartenance, d'identité et la quête de sens dans un monde de plus en plus interconnecté. Son œuvre offre une perspective distinctive, façonnée par des expériences mondiales et une profonde compréhension de l'esprit humain.

Fish of the Seto inland sea

432pages
16 heures de lecture

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Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with the formality and security of the arrangements of life for a Japanese middle-class family, living in a walled compound with their servants, following exactly the tradition inherited from their parents, with marriages arranged for the children, which continued up until World War II. By then her mother was married to an engineer and living in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. That period is marked by her mother's often funny, painful experiences of learning about the Chinese and Russians with whom she now lived with her growing family, and the war seen from her point of view. At the end of the war, the Japanese - women, children, everyone - had to escape, walking hundreds of miles to the coast. The family returned to a Tokyo where the society, the culture, the economy was entirely overturned. The Americans were everywhere, the Japanese were unemployed, and the ways of society that they had all known had vanished. And yet somehow Ruri's indomitable mother survived.