13301 Alfred A. Knopf New York, NY, U.S.A. 1954 Third Printing, February 1955 Dust Jacket Fair Price Clipped Hard Cover Good Green cloth on boards. Volume is worn on all edges and corners, some soil to page ends. Jacket is worn all edges, some small tears, an accordion scuff at the center of the front panel. Now in clear cover. "Homecoming, better than any other shows what postwar Japan [WWII] looked and felt like to a Japanese who thought his world and his life were finished. Jiro Osaragi dramatizes this feeling by his central character Kyogo, who was forced into exile many years before the war by a scandal. His wife remarried a professor who is a secret militarist. Kyogo was caught in Singapore by the war. He is imprisoned there as a smuggler and released after the surrender. He embarks on a kind of pilgrimage in honor of the past, goes to Kyoto and there encounters his daughter, whom he never knew and Seako, the women who had him imprisoned in Singapore. After many and moving scenes, he decides to leave Japan again, first seeing to the happiness of his daughter and finding a subtle means of revenge against the woman. Vivid, sensual descriptions of exotic scenes and sharp characterizations. $22.00USD
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