East is East
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Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly
Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only
to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of
black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Terrifying one islander -
literally - to death, and fleeing not only from the Immigration Agents
but also an elderly lady convinced he is Seiji Ozawa, Tanaka is
unwittingly caught up in a hilarious and irretievably complicated
spider's web of misunderstandings. His sole refuge on the island, the
manipulative and ambiguous novelist Ruth Dershowitz, only draws him in
ever deeper...
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
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