The Dream of Water
Author: Kyoko Mori
Category: Other3
Published: 2009
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Read OnlineIn 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There—looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents' farm—she relived the memories and uncovered the secrets that unlocked her past. In The Dream of Water, a series of chapters that are themselves "small perfections," she leads us to the "larger happiness" of an autobiography that is also a work of art. Japan is the land Mori fled as a teenager, seeking to escape from her cold, abusive father and her manipulative stepmother. It is the country she spend her adult life putting behind her, but it is also her homeland. As she searches through familiar neighborhoods and on distant islands, she is constantly aware of the culture she abandoned and the one she has adopted. Pushed by the sights and sounds of contemporary Japan into her interior world of memory and...
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