Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon's, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry.
But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lie.
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like A Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing and Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
Title: One Morning Like a Bird
Author: Andrew Miller
ISBN: 9780340825150
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 2009-07-23
Number of Pages: 384
Weight: 0.2586 kg
A revelatory perspective on an Eastern city in the second world war ... The prose is as delicate as a Japanese print * Sunday Times *
A revelatory perspective on an Eastern city in the second world war ... The prose is as delicate as a Japanese print * Sunday Times *
Miller's Japanese characters are densely believable, and his recreation of their world is a real achievement * Guardian *
Miller's Japanese characters are densely believable, and his recreation of their world is a real achievement * Guardian *