My Name Is SEI Shonagon Hardcover - 2003
by Jan Blensdorf
In a small incense shop in modern Tokyo, amid the manic consumerism of cartoon-colored Shibuya youth culture, incense is still made in the ancient way-slowly ground by hand and matured over time. Above the shop, a young woman sits behind a painted screen, listening to men unburden themselves about their work-dominated lives. She calls herself "Sei Shonagon," after the eleventh-century woman who wrote The Pillow Book.
This exquisite first novel is a Pillow Book for the twenty-first century; its "Sei" is a young woman who, as a child, moved to Japan from America to live with her strict, tradition-obsessed uncle after the death of her parents, an American academic and a Japanese student. As the novel opens, "Sei," now a young woman, lies in a hospital bed, hearing sounds around her, unable to speak except silently to herself-"I don't even know if you are still alive . . . I'm going to talk to you anyway, tell you everything I remember." Thus her story unfolds, back to a dark past and toward an unimaginable fate.
Sharply evocative, atmospheric, and suspenseful, My Name Is Sei Shonagon-with rights sold in eight countries before publication-adds an exciting new dimension to literature about Japan in the way that Memoirs of a Geisha has done, and introduces a fantastically talented author.
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- Title My Name Is SEI Shonagon
- Author Jan Blensdorf
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition.
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-11-10
- ISBN 9781585674435 / 1585674435
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.31 x 5.6 x 0.71 in (21.11 x 14.22 x 1.80 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Young women
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003054930
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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