By Sue Sumii,Susan Wilkinson

ISBN-10: 0804833273

ISBN-13: 9780804833271

The River without Bridge (Hashi no nai kawa) explores with outspoken frankness a topic nonetheless taboo in Japan: the intolerance and bigotry confronted day-by-day through Japan’s biggest minority staff, the burakumin.

Racially no assorted from different eastern, over the centuries burakumin were cruelly ostracized for his or her organization with occupations thought of defiling. Spanning the years 1908 to 1924, the unique six volumes of this novel hint the constructing expertise of burakumin in their rights and dignity as people. quantity 1, translated into English for the 1st time in 1990, is a narrative approximately formative years in a burakumin village. It tells of younger Koji Hatana’s wondering of the inflexible social order and his transforming into experience of injustice as he meets prejudice from different young ones in class and from his academics who attempt to instill in him their trust that due to the fact he used to be born defiled he may still surrender himself to his fate.

Told opposed to the backdrop of Japan’s fight to shed its feudalistic prior and input the fashionable age, the radical is a brave paintings and a compelling read.

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