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Brazil-Maru
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Japanese immigrants in Brazil build an isolated communal settlement in the rain forest, prey to the charisma of one man.
The story of a band of Japanese immigrants who arrive in Brazil in 1925 to carve a utopia out of the jungle. The dream of creating a new world, the cost of idealism, the symbiotic tie between a people and the land they settle, and the changes demanded by a new generation all collide in this multigenerational saga.
The story of a band of Japanese immigrants who arrive in Brazil in 1925 to carve a utopia out of the jungle. The dream of creating a new world, the cost of idealism, the symbiotic tie between a people and the land they settle, and the changes demanded by a new generation all collide in this multigenerational saga.
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“Uma narrativa histórica sobre fatos que eu desconhecia acerca da vinda de imigrantes japoneses ao Brasil no início do século XX. Bastante interessante. Fiquei enojada com a representação de um dos personagens principais, um homem manipulador que se julgava quase dono do mundo, capaz de enganar, trair, roubar, e ainda julgar como traidores quem não compactuava com ele.”
“marking for every country shelf: brazil”
About Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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