Snakeskin Shamisen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snakeskin Shamisen write by Naomi Hirahara. This book was released on 2006-04-25. Snakeskin Shamisen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win–from a novelty slot machine!–he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G.I.’s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime…and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.–a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
Gasa-Gasa Girl
Gasa-Gasa Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gasa-Gasa Girl write by Naomi Hirahara. This book was released on 2005-03-29. Gasa-Gasa Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa–never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City, and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations from maneuvering in an unfamiliar city to making nice with his tall, blond son-in-law, Lloyd, to taking care of a sickly child…to finding a dead body in the rubble of a former koi pond. The victim was Kazzy Ouchi, a half-Japanese millionaire who also happened to be Mari and Lloyd’s boss. Stumbling onto the scene, Mas sees more amiss than the detectives do, but his instinct is to keep his mouth shut. Only when the case threatens his daughter and her family does Mas take action: patiently, stubbornly tugging at the end of a tangled, dangerous mystery. And as he does, he begins to lay bare a tragic secret on the dark side of an American dream.… Both a riveting mystery and a powerful story of passionate relationships across a cultural divide, Gasa-Gasa Girl is a tale told with heart and wisdom: an unforgettable portrait of fathers, daughters, and other strangers.
Blood Hina
Blood Hina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Hina write by Naomi Hirahara. This book was released on 2013-08-26. Blood Hina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancée goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To solve the mystery to save Haruo's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heart-breaking memories, and murder.
Strawberry Yellow
Strawberry Yellow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strawberry Yellow write by Naomi Hirahara. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Strawberry Yellow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mas Arai returns for his fifth mystery by getting entangled in a family reunion murder in California's strawberry fields.
Teaching Asian North American Texts
Teaching Asian North American Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Asian North American Texts write by Jennifer Ho. This book was released on 2022-07-28. Teaching Asian North American Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Asian North American literature and media encompass a long history and a diverse variety of genres and aesthetic approaches. The essays in this volume provide context for understanding the history of Asian immigrants to the United States and Canada and the experiences of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Contributors address historical contexts, from the early enactment of Asian exclusion laws to the xenophobia following 9/11, and provide tools for textual analysis. The essays explore conventionally literary texts, genres such as mystery and speculative fiction, historical documents and legal texts, and visual media including films, photography, and graphic novels, emphasizing the ways that creators have crossed boundaries of genre and produced innovative new forms.
