A gesture life

Description:

The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman. — "Not since Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day has there been a novel so attentive to the interplay of dark memory and light manners...a beautiful, solitary, remarkably tender book."-New York Times Book Review "Exceptional...A beautifully tapestried story of seeking identity and acceptance in another culture while remaining separate from the tug of it."--Christian Science Monitor "A Gesture Life is the touching, multi layered rumination of an uneasy psyche. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of wartime victims is unforgettable...a deeply involving tale."-Chicago Tribune

subjects: Koreans,  Adoptees,  World War, 1939-1945,  Fiction,  Comfort women,  Japanese Americans,  Medical care,  Psychic trauma,  Retirees,  Women,  Large type books,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Japanese americans, fiction,  New york (state), fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, war & military,  Fiction, historical, general,  New york (n.y.), fiction

Places: Japan,  Korea,  New York (State)