A True Novel: A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

A True Novel: A Remaking of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

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<b>A remaking of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan</b><br> <b> </b><br> <i>A True Novel</i> 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. <i>A True Novel</i> then widens into an examination of Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.<br>  <br> The winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Mizumura has written a beautiful novel, with love at its core, that reveals, above all, the power of storytelling.