Five years on a rock /
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Author / Creator: | Murayama, Milton. |
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Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawaii, c1994. |
Description: | 155 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7250646 |
ISBN: | 0824816471 (acid-free paper) 9780824816476 (acid-free paper) |
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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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