ISBN: 0-916870-40-5
384 pp.
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Paperback Original
Price: $9.95
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Japan/China
Nikos Kazantzakis
Author of contemporary classics of world literature such as Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion, Freedom or Death, Saint Francis, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. Nikos Kazantzakis kept a diary of his Asian explorations; the first in 1935, the second, in the company of his wife, Helen Kazantzakis, his subsequent biographer, who supplemented her husband's diaries with her own journal of their last trip together, in 1957. In Japan/China Kazantzakis writes with passion and understanding of his experiences in Hong Kong, Kobe, Tokyo, Kyoto, Peking and Shanghai. The poverty ad misery of China in the thirties; menace of Japan, arming for war; the color, music, architecture, theater and literature of these two great nations-all come vividly to life through Kazantzakis' words. Japan/China is a brilliant panorama of the Orient, before and after World War Two, as seen through the eyes of a uniquely perceptive observer.
Bio: NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS was born in Crete in 1883 and died in Germany in 1957. Both Thomas Mann and Albert Schweitzer have called him one of the greatest writers of this century; his books have been read and celebrated in almost every country in the world.
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