Book by Aska Mochizuki
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Falling in love with a woman student while teaching Japanese language courses in Vietnam, Hiro engages in an ill-fated love triangle when she pursues a subsequent relationship with an older Japanese businessman, in a tale set against a backdrop of an economically blossoming Vietnam. Original.
Aska Mochizuki was born in Tokyo in 1973. In 1992, after graduating from high school, she found employment at a computer company. But she left the corporate world in 1994 to travel around Australia by bus, taking on a series of part-time jobs (as a shark fisherman's helper and a cleaning woman at a backpacker's hostel, to name a few.) She returned home and attended university, graduating in 2002 with a teaching certificate. She embarked immediately to Vietnam, to teach Japanese, and returned home to Tokyo in 2004, where she began to write. Spinning Tropics was the 2007 winner of the Knopf Kodansha Prize.
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Librería: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Original. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 48043918-6
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Librería: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Original. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Nº de ref. del artículo: 388967-75
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Librería: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: USED Very Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: 480445
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Librería: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Used - Like New. 2009. Paperback. Remainder mark. Fine. Nº de ref. del artículo: A25710
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Librería: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good. bumped/creased still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0307473694-01
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Librería: Renaissance Books, Riverside, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Soft cover. Condición: New. First US Paper. Hiro is a tall, lanky, somewhat awkward Japanese woman who is teaching Japanese in Vietnam. Yun is a shy, beautiful but tough young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to make a better life for herself and her family. They find themselves drawn to each other, to become part of a triangle of love and jealousy when Konno, an older Japanese man, enters the picture.231 pages, published @ $15.00. Nº de ref. del artículo: 15019
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Librería: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing with full number line. Very good paperback copy. Clean text, tight binding. NOT ex-library. No remainder mark. Exterior looks great, spine is uncreased. An excellent copy. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nº de ref. del artículo: 272544
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Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Meet Hiro. She's tall, lanky and awkward-a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher. Meet Dung. She's shy, beautiful, and tough-a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese, determined to create a better life for herself and her family. When Dung becomes one of Hiro's students, they are instantly drawn to each other. For both of them, it is their first time in love with another woman. But when Konno, an older Japanese businessman, befriends Hiro, Dung begins to grow unbearably jealous. What unfolds is a love triangle with very complicated, ultimately devastating, results. Set against the backdrop of a Vietnam on the economic rise, debut novelist Aska Mochizuki vividly brings to life the buzz of motorcycles and the tastes of Vietnamese coffee and spicy papaya salads; the confines of the Vietnamese family; the lingering effects of long wars; the rich who ride the economic wave and the poor who are left behind. Spinning Tropics is a lush and evocative story of an intoxicating love affair. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780307473691
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Librería: moluna, Greven, Alemania
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condición: New. Aska Mochizuki was born in Tokyo in 1973. In 1992, after graduating from high school, she found employment at a computer company. But she left the corporate world in 1994 to travel around Australia by bus, taking on a series of part-time jobs (as a s. Nº de ref. del artículo: 897693443
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