Ebook {Epub PDF} Grass for My Pillow by Saiichi Maruya

Grass For My Pillow Hardcover – Octo by Saiichi Maruya (Author) › Visit Amazon's Saiichi Maruya Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Saiichi Maruya (Author), Dennis Keene (Translator) › 4/5(1). Grass for My Pillow is a calm, carefully built-up story. Maruya conveys Hamada's life and travails well, and it adds up to a solid character study -- as well as a successful study of Japan both during World War II and in the mids. The stories are well-related, and there's a nice mix of urgency, tension, sacrifice, and even www.doorway.ru: Maruya Saiichi. Saiichi Maruya: 笹まくら (Grass for My Pillow) Shokichi Hamada is an assistant clerk in a registry office in a Japanese university. He works fairly hard and hopes but does not expect to be promoted, not least because his rival, Nishi, has longer service than him. He is married to a younger woman and, though they have no children, the marriage seems relatively happy.

Grass For My Pillow by Saiichi Maruya, Dennis Keene (Translator) | Editorial Reviews. Hardcover (New Edition) $ Hardcover. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item —. Grass For My Pillow ebook By Saiichi Maruya. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library ISBN. Author. Saiichi Maruya. Publisher. Columbia University Press. Release. 27 August Share. Subjects Fiction Literature. Search for a digital library with this title. Search by city, ZIP code, or library name. Learn more about. Home» Japan» Saiichi Maruya» 笹まくら (Grass for My Pillow). Saiichi Maruya: 笹まくら (Grass for My Pillow) Shokichi Hamada is an assistant clerk in a registry office in a Japanese university. He works fairly hard and hopes but does not expect to be promoted, not least because his rival, Nishi, has longer service than him.

Grass for My Pillow is a calm, carefully built-up story. Maruya conveys Hamada's life and travails well, and it adds up to a solid character study -- as well as a successful study of Japan both during World War II and in the mids. The stories are well-related, and there's a nice mix of urgency, tension, sacrifice, and even romance. Saiichi Maruya: 笹まくら (Grass for My Pillow) Shokichi Hamada is an assistant clerk in a registry office in a Japanese university. He works fairly hard and hopes but does not expect to be promoted, not least because his rival, Nishi, has longer service than him. He is married to a younger woman and, though they have no children, the marriage seems relatively happy. Grass for my pillow. "Set in Japan during and after the Second World War. The story of Shokichi Hamada, a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler until the end of the war in " -- Jacket.