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      The River with No Bridge

      by Susan Wilkinson
      Published
      Jun 1990
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      384
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      The River With No Bridge (Hashi no nai kawa) explores with outspoken frankness a subject still taboo in Japan: the intolerance and bigotry faced daily by Japan's largest minority group, the burakumin. Racially no different from other Japanese, over the centuries the burakumin have been cruelly ostracized for their association with occupations considered defiling. Spanning the years 1908 to 1924, the original six volumes of this novel trace the developing awareness of burakumin of their rights and dignity as human beings. Volume 1, translated into English for the first time in 1990, is a story about childhood in a burakumin village.

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      First Edition Jun 1990 Tuttle Publishing ISBN13 9780804815901 ISBN10 0804815909
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      Dec 2011 -- Not Selected ISBN10 B006TKOY2A
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