356 pages
English language
Published July 24, 2000 by Riverhead Books.
A gesture life
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The secret life of a Japanese-American pharmacist in a small town in New York. On the surface a model of propriety and serenity, he is torn by memories of his service in the Japanese army in World War II and the comfort woman he loved and could not save. By the author of Native Speaker.
Subjects
- Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Korea -- Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.