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Country Of Origin by Don Lee (2004, Hardcover) 
Country Of Origin by Don Lee (2004, Hardcover)

 
Country Of Origin by Don Lee (2004, Hardcover)

Author: Don Lee
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0393058123
ISBN-13: 9780393058123
Product ID: EPID30215410
Description: This novel by the editor of the esteemed literary journal Ploughshares won the 2005 Edgar Award for best first novel. The disappearance of a young half-American, half-Japanese woman leads to Tokyo's thriving sex trade. The American Embas...
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Synopsis
This novel by the editor of the esteemed literary journal Ploughshares won the 2005 Edgar Award for best first novel. The disappearance of a young half-American, half-Japanese woman leads to Tokyo's thriving sex trade. The American Embassy representative assigned to her case is enmeshed in a tangle of sex and lies, and the Japanese cop he works with is an iffy figure with his own strange secrets.

Details
Publication Date:2004-06-01

Size
Length:314 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:20.8 oz

Publisher's Note
An American girl disappears on the dark side of Tokyo, a world of hostess clubs and corruption, racism, and conformity.
Lisa Countryman vanishes in Tokyo in 1980. The young U.S. Embassy official assigned to her case, Tom Hurley, is in over his head, tangled in an unsavory love affair with the wife of a CIA officer. Lisa's best chance at being found may lie in the improbable hands of Kenzo Ota, a neurotic Japanese cop ridiculed by his peers. Worse, Lisa likely disappeared into the shadow world of Tokyo's sex trade, where a bewildering variety of clubs cater to every imaginable male fantasy, lust, and perversion.
The mystery of Lisa's disappearance is intertwined with the mystery of her origins as an ainoko, a half-breed. For Lisa, as with others involved in her case, alienation and belonging, love and hate, are bound up with race. Every man—guilty and innocent—who seeks her has to come to terms with his own nature and character.

Industry Reviews
"Thriller conventions draw the reader, like the characters, into a gallery of human engines. First-novelist Lee...leaves no fingerprints: his cool, precise prose captures his characters without overexplaining them."
Kirkus (04/15/2004)

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