The Japanese Wife
And Other Stories
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552787694
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
An Indian man writes to a Japanese woman. She writes back. They fall in love and exchange vows in their letters, then live as man and wife without ever setting eyes on each other – their intimacy of words finally tested by life’s miraculous upheavals.The twelve stories in this collection are about the unexpected. These are chronicles of memory and dreams born at the crossroads of civilizations. They parade a cast of angels and demons rubbing shoulders with those whose lives are never quite as ordinary as they seem.
About the author
Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta and lived in Montreal for many years. Formerly a professor at McGill University, he now teaches at Oxford University and is married with one daughter. Author of three acclaimed novels – The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturists, and Racists – he has acted on stage and in film and written poetry and screenplays. The Japanese Wife has been made into a film by India’s celebrated director Aparna Sen.
