Brazil-Maru
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566890160 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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wonderful heartbreaking story This is one of the most wonderful stories I have read in a very long time. It deals with around 70 years of history of a japanese farming community in Brazil, beginning with the birth of the community, its demise and finally the integration of the younger generation as well as their attempts to connect to a homeland that . "Brazil-Maru" according to Unagi Sushi. I read this book MANY years ago, before I became a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist. Having lived in Japan for several years as a pre-teen and teenager, I never forgot what a wonderful culture and tradition that the Japanese have. So, I read books on Japan as often as possible. This book was enlightening because it talks about a top. Good historical fiction Jerry Sanchez "Brazil-Maru" is the story of a Japanese colony in the countryside of Sao Paulo State throughout the twentieth century. Although the locations and ideas are real, the story itself is not. "Brazil-Maru" is an interesting book with living characters and is a good "fictional" account of the lives of Japanese immigrants to Br
From Publishers Weekly Yamashita offers an enriching fictionalization of the settling of the northwestern corner of Brazil by socialist Japanese Christians. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Japanese-American writer Yamashita: a story of Japanese emigration set, like her first novel (Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, 1990), in Brazil. A range of characters, male and female, tell about a particular group of Japanese who emigrated to Brazil in the first decades of this century. Christian, well-educated, and reasonably affluent, they sought to establish communities where Christian and Japanese values could flourish. Informative and timely.-Kirkus. But even the most idealistic communities have problems, and, successively, Emile, Ha