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A Girls' Guide to the Islands
Suzanne Kamata
出版
Gemma Open Door for Literacy, Incorporated
, 2017
主題
Family & Relationships / Children with Special Needs
Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature / General
Travel / Asia / East / Japan
Young Adult Nonfiction / Adventure & Adventurers
Young Adult Nonfiction / Girls & Women
Young Adult Nonfiction / Travel
ISBN
1936846578
9781936846573
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qKgHMQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The American writer Suzanne Kamata had lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of the Inland Sea. The islands, first made famous by Donald Richie's The Inland Sea 50 years ago, are noted for displaying artwork created by prominent, and sometimes curious, international artists and sculptors: Naoshima's wealth of museums, including one devoted to 007, Yayoi Kusama's polka dot pumpkins, Kazuo Katase's blue teacup, and a monster rising out of a well on the hour in Sakate, called "Anger at the Bottom of the Sea"--to name a few. Spurred by her teen-aged daughter Lilia's burgeoning interest in art and adventure, Kamata sets out to show her the islands' treasures. Mother and daughter must confront several barriers on their adventure. Lilia is deaf and uses a wheelchair. It is not always easy to get onto -- or off of -- the islands, not to mention the challenges of language, culture, and a generation gap.
A Girls' Guide to the Islands
takes the reader on a rare visit by a unique mother and daughter team.