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The China Lover by Ian Buruma - Review

06 October 2008 By Adam 0 In Fiction

The China Lover: A Novel by Ian Buruma
Buruma’s plot strays all over the map, and that’s part of the problem with this ambitious book. He seems to have tried to work in every theme he’s every contemplated about Japanese history and identity: the problematic relationship between East and West, the Japanese underworld, anti-Semitism, the role [...]

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