Add this copy of Five Years on a Rock to cart. $49.95, very good condition, Sold by Flamingo Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Menifee, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Univ of Hawaii Pr.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x6x0; 1994 University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, Hawaii), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, blue endpapers, [4], 155 pp. Very slight soiling to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a moderately rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Uncommon. ~KK~ [1.5P] Milton Atsushi Murayama (1923-2016) was an American novelist and playwright. A Nisei, he is perhaps best remembered for his 1975 All I Asking for Is My Body, which is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II. Here, Murayama returns to the places and people of his earlier fiction-to the sugar plantation company towns and sleepy villages of Maui, and to the resilient Oyama family. Five Years on a Rock is the story of Sawa Oyama, the mother who plays a major role in All I Asking for Is My Body. In a spirited voice full of courage and wit, Sawa tells of her arrival in Hawaii in 1915 as a seventeen-year-old picture bride. But her hope of returning to Japan after 'five years on a rock' wanes as the five years stretch to twenty, during which six children are born, her husband's fishing business succeeds then fails, and the family debt grows.
Add this copy of Five Years on a Rock to cart. $99.90, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Univ of Hawaii Pr.
