{"product_id":"plantation-boy-milton-murayama-9780824819651","title":"Plantation Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo other writer has attempted such a broad view of the nisei experience in Hawai'i as Milton Murayama. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Plantation Boy, the third novel in a planned tetralogy that includes the highly popular All I Asking for Is My Body and Five Years on a Rock, eldest son Toshio narrates the continuing story of the Oyama family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Outspoken, proud, determined, passionate: Tosh is the voice of the rebel that authority seeks to silence; he is the proverbial \"protruding nail\" that Japanese tradition seeks to flatten. His fight is against not only his family's poverty and the environment that keeps them oppressed, but also his own plantation-boy mentality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His struggles are set against the cataclysmic events of World War II--the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the internment of Japanese Americans, the heroism of the 100th and 442nd in Europe, the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Asia--and the social and political upheavals in Hawai'i. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here is a powerful work about Japanese in Hawai'i that shows us more than stereotypes. By illuminating Tosh's life, Murayama evokes a family and a community and, brilliantly, a critical vision of culture, of language, and of history itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milton Murayama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824819659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824819651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.25w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/1998","brand":"Milton Murayama","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483720724735,"sku":"9780824819651","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5572386-d280-470d-8442-371659b6ddb4.jpg?v=1778040220","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plantation-boy-milton-murayama-9780824819651","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}