The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Yuri Minatoya
A quietly daring exploration of art, family, culture, and conscience, as three generations of women, American and Japanese, face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko’s mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting, the women must learn to make peace in an absorbing tale where mothers are childless, warriors are pacifists, and beauty is found in the common and the small.
"How sad it was to finish Lydia Minatoya’s first novelShe allowed me to live inside the sensibilities of three generations of achingly engaging Japanese women and I did not want to let them go. The Strangeness of Beauty is a strange and beautiful work of art." -- Robert Olen Butler
Lydia Minatoya won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and notable-book citations from the American Library Association and the New York Public Library for her memoir. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393321401 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393321401 |
| Title | The Strangeness of Beauty |
| Author | Lydia Yuri Minatoya |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2001-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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