{"product_id":"the-dream-of-lafcadio-hearn-roger-pulvers-9781911221333","title":"The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: \"What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the season'?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough now largely forgotten in the West, he is, in the 21st century, still considered by the Japanese to be the foreigner with the most insight into their mind and mores. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrphan of Europe, chronicler of the eerie and the grotesque, journalist and ethnographer of subcultures, Greek-Irish author Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Yokohama from the United States in 1890. During his 14-year stay in Japan he wrote 14 books about the country, becoming known, in the decades succeeding his death, as the foremost interpreter of things Japanese in the West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dream of Lafcadio Hearn is a novel not only about Hearn in Meiji Japan but about any person in any era who may feel, for a time or forever, more at home in a foreign land than in their own. The novel is preceded by a detailed introduction on Hearn from the time of his birth in Greece in 1850 until his death in Japan in 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Pulvers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911221337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911221333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Balestier Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d","brand":"Roger Pulvers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173178405119,"sku":"9781911221333","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7934c998-f016-47b4-94c5-e43f91973ee1.jpg?v=1689791418","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dream-of-lafcadio-hearn-roger-pulvers-9781911221333","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}