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Loading... Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp (edition 1988)by Osamu Dazai (Author)
Work InformationReturn to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp by Osamu Dazai
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. During the World War Ⅱ, Dazai travelled to Tsugaru, the very northern part of Honshu, Japan, where he was born and had grown up until he was 14. He wanted to search for his own roots, and having travelled various parts of Tsugaru including places he had never visitied before, and having met various people, his old friends, his relatives, and above all, his old nanny named 'Take', he was gradually convinced that he was truly one of Tsugaru people. Though he had lived and been suffered over ten years in Tokyo, he couldn't change, he was still none other than one of native Tsugaru people. no reviews | add a review
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Place: Tsugaru in Aomori Prefecture, JapanTime: Spring 1944 As World War II was coming to an end, Osamu Dazai (born Shuji Tsushima) returned to his home in the northern tip of Honshu, Japan on assignment from a publisher to travel and write about the part of Japan where he was born and raised. He writes with humor and warmth about old friends, the people (family and servants) who nurtured him, his obsession with crabs, and his worries over sake in times of rationing. He writes with pride about his home even as he learns about some of its customs and history for the first time. This travel journal is part travelogue, part history lesson, and part love story. Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was a twentieth century Japanese author. He is best known for the novels The Setting Sun and No Longer Human. No library descriptions found. |
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