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Arabic By: Ian Buruma Softcover 455 pp Dar al Kitab al Arabi, 2011 17 x 24 cm 9789953279350 Historical Fiction - Literature - Drama
Translated to Arabic, "The China Lover" the 2008 novel by British-Dutch writer and academic Ian Buruma. A transfixing portrait of a woman and a nation eagerly burying the past to transform the future...Ian Buruma uses the life of the starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko as a lens through which to understand the lure of erotic fantasies in the conquest of nations. The China Lover reveals the catastrophic results when theater and politics blend in a lethal manner.