The Orange Girl Condition:Well Read The Making of Modern Japan

The Making of Modern Japan charts these changes—the social engineering begun with the founding of the shogunate in 1600

The searing

and an aging simpleton called Nakata

unable to form intimate connections with anyone

a man of extraordinary skill and reputation

The Orange Girl Condition:Well Read The Making of Modern JapanFrom the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist. 'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Roed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father