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Title: THE CUSTOM HOUSE
By: Francis King
Format: Paperback

List price: £16.99


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ISBN 10: 1447257820
ISBN 13: 9781447257820
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 5 December, 2013
Pages: 426
Description: From the Man Booker long-listed author of The Nick of Time, The Dividing Stream and A Domestic Animal
Synopsis: The central event of Francis King's novel, originally published in 1961, is a savage and seemingly inexplicable murder around which revolves a panorama of life in Japan that is impressive in its complexity and insight. Although The Custom House is in some ways a saddening book, with its recurrent misunderstandings between West and East and its picture of people forever straining to rise above their limitations, it is never solely tragic, flashing through its length with passages of delightful wit and humour. In his central characters-the English teacher, Knox; the pathetic Australian missionary, Welling; Sanae, the Japanese girl with whom he falls in love; Setsuko, one of the 'New Women' of Japan, and her uncle, head of a vast cartel and an amateur painter-King displays the penetrating knowledge of motive and character for which he was so often praised. This is a book of a scale and seriousness which few writers would attempt, and the result is not merely a thrilling and intensely vivid picture of post-war Japan but a work of art which digs deeply into universal experience.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Macmillan Bello
Returns: Non-returnable
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