The Floating World (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cynthia Kadohata
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Adolescence, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, Adultery, Multiculturalism, Death or dying, Grandparents or grandchildren, Conformity, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans
- Locales: United States
The Floating World is Kadohata's remarkable first novel that was greeted with great critical acclaim and found a substantial readership. Many of the individual chapters are based on short stories Kadohata had published in The New Yorker, among others. This gives the novel its episodic flair that perfectly reflects the prevailing theme of an insubstantial, transient world only loosely connected to the family of the protagonist who traverses it almost like in a dream.
The Floating World is told from the perspective of Olivia Ann, a young Japanese American...
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