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Eight Million Gods and Demons

Eight Million Gods and Demons

by HirokoSherwin (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

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Synopsis

Five years in the writing, Eight Million Gods and Demons is the mesmerizing debut novel of Hiroko Sherwin. With echoes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Hiroko Sherwin evokes the demons of her country's past to explore the complexities of the human condition. The profoundly moving story of three generations of the Imura family begins with Emi Imura's brave fight against epilepsy as we embark on a poignant odyssey into the family's turbulent history. Her husband, Taku, idealist and modernizer, loves his wife, yet betrays her with Geisha Hana. Dreaming of playing a part in world affairs, his own life inevitably reflects the ambitions of his country as it progresses onwards in its ill-conceived and ill-fated quest for Japanese supremacy in Asia. Spanning the Japanese Meiji era in the 1890s to the Second World War, Eight Million Gods and Demons is a haunting epic of jealousy, forbidden love and loss.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
Published: 31 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 0709068786
ISBN 13: 9780709068785

Author Bio
Hiroko Sherwin was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1936 and was evacuated to the countryside when the city was bombed during the Second World War. At university, she fell in love with her cousin, a physicist and after graduation followed him to the United States where they were married in 1962. Settling in Princeton, where her three daughters were born, Hiroko Sherwin served as a special correspondent for Yomuiri, a Japanese newspaper, took up painting and also wrote three books in Japanese about American women. Her daughter Mako Yoshikawa is an accomplished novelist. After some twenty years of marriage, Hiroko Sherwin and her husband became divorced, and she married an American businessman in 1986. They lived in Switzerland for eight years, before moving to England in 1999, and now live near Bath with their two cats and two alpacas.