In the following review, Matsumoto praises The Floating World emphasizing the novel's Japanese American elements.
There is a book I have been hoping to find for years, every time I walked pa...
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In the following excerpt, Lee, after analyzing aspects of America's "obsession" with Asia and strains of anti-Asian sentiment pervading American society, discusses the Asian-Ameri...
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In the following review, Lim discusses the regional and ethnic specificity of The Floating World and hails the novel's depictions of working-class life.
The Floating World. Cynthia Kadohata&...
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In the following review, Flottmeier provides a very brief synopsis of The Floating World and discusses its suitability for young adults.
Olivia and her family are Japanese Americans living in the 1...
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The following laudatory review of In the Heart of the Valley of Love also provides a brief plot synopsis.
In an acutely moving second novel, Kadohata (The Floating World, 1989) again records the sp...
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In the following review, Kakutani criticizes the inadequate plot structure of In the Heart of the Valley of Love while praising Kadohata's "obvious talent" as a writer.
In her ...
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In the following summary of her interview with Kadohata, See provides details of the novelist's life, reports on her ambivalence towards being hailed as a new voice on the Asian American litera...
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In the following review, Smith praises the skillfully evoked atmosphere and the "finely wrought prose" of In the Heart of the Valley of Love.
Readers of Cynthia Kadohata's firs...
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In the following review, Quick writes that the narrative of In the Heart of the Valley of Love is lacking in focus and is poorly constructed.
In her second novel, Cynthia Kadohata has tried somethi...
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In the following review, Idema writes that Kadohata's depiction of a disintegrating 2052 Los Angeles in her novel In the Heart of the Valley of Love is convincing and likens the main protagonis...
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Critical Review by Valerie Matsumoto
