{"product_id":"grass-for-my-pillow-saiichi-maruya-9780231126588","title":"Grass for My Pillow","description":"First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSingular Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in 1945. In 1965, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day events force into the light, confronting him with unexpected consequences of his refusal to conform twenty years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saiichi Maruya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231126581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231126588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 6.42w x 1.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2002 pg. 1350\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/11\/2002 pg. 189","brand":"Saiichi Maruya","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913480569087,"sku":"9780231126588","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_586a3231-3451-4027-b696-b6fbab6c14fc.jpg?v=1680620605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grass-for-my-pillow-saiichi-maruya-9780231126588","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}