Yokohama, California

Toshio Mori

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Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.

Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

Book Details

Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2015
Pages: 176
Language: English
Edition: Revised - 0002
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.50lb
EAN: 9780295994741
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Literary

About the Author

Mori, Toshio: - Toshio Mori was the author of Yokohama, California (1949), Woman From Hiroshima (1978), and The Chauvanist and Other Stories (1979). He was the first Japanese American writer to publish a book of short stories in the United States, and his writing career spanned the formative decades surrounding World War II.

Praise for this book

"Mori is unafraid to let the humanity of his characters and himself shine through bravely."

-- "Oakland Tribune"

"A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades just before World War II."

-- "Exploration in Sights and Sounds"

"Mori's superbly structured short stories are . . . tender, evocative episodes of growing up as a Japanese American prior to World War II."

-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"Originally published in 1949, these twenty-two stories present subtle glimpses into the lives of Japanese-Americans in their neighborhood in Oakland, California, aka 'Yokohama.' Mori has a delicate touch, and the stories have more than a passing resemblance to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919)."

-- "Kirkus Reviews"