Books by Amy Yamada and Complete Book Reviews
Amy Yamada, Author, Chikako Noma, Editor, Sonya Johnson, Translator Kodansha America $18 (372p) ISBN 978-1-56836-018-8
No longer writing about Tokyo S&M clubs (the subject of her debut novel, Kneel Down and Lick My Feet, which brought her fame and critical acclaim in her native Japan), Yamada, whose short stories were introduced here in Monkey Brain Sushi, (1991),...
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Amy Yamada, Author, Sonya L. Johnson, Translator Penguin Books $11.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-025418-1
Bestselling Japanese writer Yamada's first novel to be published in America presents the story of a doomed love affair set in New York. (Apr.)
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Amy Yamada, Author, Yumi Gunji, Translator, Marc Jardine, Translator , trans. from the Japanese by Yumo Gunji and Marc Jardine. St. Martin's $23.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-312-35226-4
Originally published in Japan in the mid-1980s (before Trash
), the three novellas in this harsh, vivid collection each feature a Japanese woman in a destructive relationship with an African-American man. The title novella presents Kim, a nightclub...
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