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One Morning Like a Bird

One Morning Like a Bird

by Andrew Miller (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon's, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry. But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lie.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 23 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 0340825154
ISBN 13: 9780340825150
Book Overview: Set in Japan in the run-up to Pearl Harbour, the mesmerising tale of a young man forced to make life-changing decisions, by one of the most highly acclaimed British writers

Media Reviews
A revelatory perspective on an Eastern city in the second world war ... The prose is as delicate as a Japanese print * Sunday Times *
A revelatory perspective on an Eastern city in the second world war ... The prose is as delicate as a Japanese print * Sunday Times *
Miller's Japanese characters are densely believable, and his recreation of their world is a real achievement * Guardian *
Miller's Japanese characters are densely believable, and his recreation of their world is a real achievement * Guardian *
Author Bio
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and greeted as the debut of an outstanding new writer. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like A Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, and The Crossing. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he has lived in Spain, Japan, France and Ireland, and currently lives in Somerset.