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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777509403321

Autore

Abildskov Marilyn <1961->

Titolo

The men in my country [[electronic resource] /] / Marilyn Abildskov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58729-512-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Sightline books

Disciplina

952.04/9/08691

Soggetti

Americans - Japan

Japan Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

It starts as a name; I meet Nozaki; But we don't meet; One night in class; I meet the second man; The next day; We meet again; The next day; In the days that follow; I meet the third man; When I call the professor; The dream of travel; When Rachel and I meet; One night I meet the professor; The professor tells me; One night in class; The Japanese businessmen; I know an American Woman; One night Nozaki and I; One night, all the bars in Matsumoto; The men in my country; The question with Amir; One morning I meet the professor; I saw an exhibit in a Chicago art museum

The professor continues callingI read about scientists; Amir continues calling; I live in the land of memory; One afternoon, all the men; I remember this; I meet the professor for coffee; I remember Nozaki in snapshots; He drives me home; Then it happens; I know a woman; Remembering is a way to keep someone near; When I tell the professor; If it had ended there?; In my remaining days; At Tokyo's Narita airport; For a long time; As time went on; The men in my country are long gone; Sometimes when I think of Japan; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

A travel memoir offering an artful depiction of a very real place, The Men in My Country also covers the terrain of a complex emotional journey, tracing a geography of the heart, showing how we move to be moved, how in losing ourselves in a foreign place we can become dangerously-and gloriously-undone.