Silent Honour
In August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her mother''s belief in ancient traditions and her father''s passion for modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for an education. To Hiroko, California is a different world - a world of barbecues, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California have become more American than Japanese - and Hiroko also finds a link between her ...
In August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her mother''s belief in ancient traditions and her father''s passion for modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for an education. To Hiroko, California is a different world - a world of barbecues, station wagons and college. Her cousins in California have become more American than Japanese - and Hiroko also finds a link between her ...
