East Is East

17 hrs. 58 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author T. Coraghessan Boyle

Narrator Evgeny Ternovsky

Description

This novel is a gripping odyssey of a Japanese half-blood, the son of an American hippie. Making his way into an incomprehensible, hostile America, where he is searching for the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka takes with him a particle of the East—Yukio Mishima’s code of samurai honor.
T. Coraghessan Boyle was made truly famous by the best American magazines: for twenty years now, «The New Yorker», «Harper's Basaar», «Esquire», «Playboy», and «GQ» have literally fought for the right to publish his stories. Over the course of his writing career, Boyle has collected five of the most prestigious O. Henry Awards, three American PEN Center awards, three times received the «American Editors’ Choice» prize, and twice the title of author of the «Best American Short Story». He now has a dozen and a half books translated into seventeen languages to his name, as well as the title of laureate of the French Prix Médicis, one of the most prestigious in Europe. And also the film «The Road to Wellville» (1994), based on his novel and directed by the great Alan Parker with Anthony Hopkins in the leading role. The novel «East Is East» is a gripping odyssey of a Japanese half-blood, the son of an American hippie. Making his way into an incomprehensible, hostile America, where he is searching for the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka takes with him a particle of the East—Yukio Mishima’s code of samurai honor.