Five years on a rock /

Five years on a rock /

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Author / Creator:	Murayama, Milton.
Imprint:	Honolulu : University of Hawaii, c1994.
Description:	155 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Japanese Americans -- Fiction. Japanese Americans. Maui (Hawaii) -- Fiction. Hawaii -- Maui. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7250646

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ISBN:	0824816471 (acid-free paper) 9780824816476 (acid-free paper)
Summary:	In 1914 the parents of a Japanese woman send her to Hawaii for an arranged marriage to a stranger who paid $350 for her. The novel follows the woman's hard life in her role of wife, mother and feeder of pigs for the family's tofu business. By the author of All I Asking for Is My Body.

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Summary:	Milton Murayama returns to the places and people of his earlier fiction - to the sugar plantation company towns and sleepy villages of Maui, and to the resilient Oyama family. Five Years on a Rock is the story of Sawa Oyama, the mother who plays a major role in All I Asking for Is My Body. In a spirited voice full of courage and wit, Sawa tells of her arrival in Hawaii in 1915 as a seventeen-year-old picture bride. But her hope of returning to Japan after five years on a rock wanes as the five years stretch to twenty, during which six children are born, her husband's fishing business succeeds then fails, and the family debt grows. Overworked and sick with worry, Sawa loses all her teeth and falls deathly ill, the victim, she believes, of someone else's bachi (divine retribution). She recovers, however, when an aunt dies in her stead, and she returns to her family with renewed vigor and a new set of teeth.
Physical Description:	155 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0824816471 9780824816476