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Bezig met laden... Harvest Son (1998)door David Mas Masumoto
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is autobiographical writing by David Mas Masumoto. He discusses his family's Japanese origin, the family's confinement in an internment camp in Arizona during World War II, and the eventual purchase of farmland in California. The family works hard to be successful growing grapes and peaches. Masumoto presents this portion of his life story using a positive tone while still acknowledging the daily struggles his grandparents and parents faced in creating a situation in which his generation could be more financially secure. His description of farm life is appealing. The general discussion of the interaction of Japanese culture and traditional American farming culture is interesting, and it was enjoyable to read about this family. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
David Mas Masumoto, best-selling author of Epitaph for a Peach, returns to the same ground but digs even deeper in a new, "more ambitious book" in which "he lets his philosophy about man and nature emerge from an absorbing chronicle of his life and that of his Japanese antecedents" (The Economist). This is a book about working alongside the ghosts of generations past, about the search for roots in the tragic history of internment camps and in the rural culture of Japan. It is equally about renewal-reinvigorating the farm with organic techniques, teaching his children how to carry on the work that eighty acres of peaches and grapes demand. Masumoto knits past and present to achieve a rare and essential harmony: holding on to what matters, despite the pressures of time and change. "Take your time, linger" with the book, counsels the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Masumoto's serene tales . . . are like a balm." He is a "remarkable" author, sums up The Atlantic, "with a field, and a sensibility, peculiarly his own." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As a young man he went to college and then to Japan, where he took an intensive language course and then lived with his great uncle for some time, helping him with his farm of rice and buckwheat. Upon returning home he decided he wanted to farm, and that he was interested in organic methods. When he wrote this book, he was raising his own two kids on his farm, with his father still there to help.
This book is over 20 years old now, and I wonder what his own kids are now doing. Is either interested in continuing the tradition? ( )