Naomi Otsubo

The Secret of Butterflies

Bilingual Japanese and English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bilingual Japanese and English Text, Facing-Page Edition. This autobiographical work chronicles Naomi's struggles to understand the cruelty of the world from her experience of raising swallowtail butterflies in her garden balcony. This experience leads her to unravel a family secret of her then 14-year-old father's history of the bombing of Nagasaki. This short story of butterflies, dreams, gods, and survival is woven into a beautiful message of hope. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿......¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hakusan Creation
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Japanisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 122g
• ISBN-13: 9781935461128
• ISBN-10: 1935461125
• Artikelnr.: 74316393

Autorenporträt

After working in Tokyo as a business and publication translator and a full-time nature poet for a satellite broadcasting station, Naomi moved to the United States with her husband William Ash in 2006. She pursued a self-sufficient life in Maine for ten years, exploring the natural world and writing poetry. During this time, she started a small publisher Hakusan Creation. She has published two other books of her work: "乙姫から浦島太郎に告ぐ" in 2014, an autobiographical poetry book about her psychological journey from a single woman in Tokyo to her marriage, and "空海の人びと" in 2016, a diary of her three experiences of completing Japan's longest walking pilgrimage on the island of Shikoku. Currently, she lives in Washington, DC.