Star of the Orient

[Faith Bach]

It sounds great!  Please note the book title is THE CHINA LOVER,  
listed on Amazon(s) ISBN 1594201943, only in hardcover so far.
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Faith Bach
On Oct 5, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:

> The New York Times Book Review has a review of Ian Buruma's new  
> book Star of the Orient, a novel about Yamaguchi Yoshiko based in  
> part on fact and part on fiction.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Hammer-t.html? 
> ei=5070&emc=eta1
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> The book, the review says, shows how Buruma is "fascinated by the  
> power of the cinema in Japanese history, both as a cultural  
> touchstone and as a political tool used by conquering armies."
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> A number of the characters are based on people we know (Sidney  
> Vanoven is clearly Donald Richie) and it seems we could all play  
> the game of trying to find out who is who.
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> Has anyone read it yet?
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