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A room where The star-spangled banner cannot be heard, a novel in three parts, Levy Hideo ; translated by Christopher D. Scott

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A room where The star-spangled banner cannot be heard, a novel in three parts, Levy Hideo ; translated by Christopher D. Scott

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A room where The star-spangled banner cannot be heard

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

754714777

Responsibility statement

Levy Hideo ; translated by Christopher D. Scott

Series statement

Japanese studies series

Sub title

a novel in three parts

Summary

A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard is the highly acclaimed, moving debut of Levy Hideo (also known as Ian Hideo Levy), a white American author living in Japan who writes fiction and nonfiction in Japanese. Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, which include student protests against the Vietnam War and the U.S.-Japan Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty (AMPO), the novel tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict au

Table Of Contents

A room where "The Star-Spangled Banner" cannot be heard -- The end of November -- One of the guys

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