Name: A True Novel
ISBN: 9781590512036

Minae Mizumura

"Begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success--despite racial and class prejudice--and an obsession with a girl from an affluent family that has haunted him all his life. [The book] then widens into an examination of Japans westernization and the emergence of a middle class"--Amazon.com.

A True Novel

Irene Alegre

This is the sort of book that's so long it feels like it's never going to end, but when it finally does you want to start reading it all over again.

I was blown away by the mastery behind it, the way Mizumura handles such a complex story, both on the psychological level, as the relationships between the characters are very nuanced, but also in terms of the structure of the narrative itself.

Absolutely brilliant. It's too soon to say this will probably be my favourite novel of the year (especially since I already know what I will be reading and there's so much proficiency in that TBR), but it could very well be.

A True Novel

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