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American Dervish - ¥1,700 (Between Oji and Nishi-sugamo stations)
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ISBN 9780316183314
One of the many new books to come out of the Pakistani diaspora in the USA. The writer is exquisitely good at capturing all the themes of cross cultural clashing and meshing. He writes with love and patience.
I had an idea to keep this book in my permanent hoard, because it is hardback, because it is first edition... and I was mesmerized by the story. I haven't touched it up until now, for my book culling.
But as I get older, I realize a book is worth among other things for how often it is read. Not how well it is hoarded.
This is very good. Sensitive writer (a man). The overarching theme is the clash between cultures (examples: in the form of a sexually very conservative wife, another woman who allows herself to stay in a bad marriage because of her faith in religion, and many other observations).
The writer brings all these things to the table, open, honest, himself, first a boy, then a man, working to make space in his own reality for all these clashes.
This is a pertinent book in a nation of immigrants (the USA). But I think it speaks too all people who have left one culture and immersed themselves in another culture.
I know that my ideas of "what is" were turned upside down when I came to Japan .