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So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins Yoko Kawashima Watkins was born in 1934 in the Japanese-occupied Chinese province of Manchuria. She then spent the first eleven years of her childhood in the northern Korean city of Nanam, where her...

So Far from the Bamboo Grove is a semi-autobiographical book written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins, a Japanese American writer. It was originally published by Beech Tree in April of 1986. A Japanese version of this book is not available while China has...

Yoko Kawashima Watkins, illustrated by Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng. Bradbury, $14.95 ISBN 0-02-792525-0 In the foreword to this eclectic selection of Japanese folktales, the author of So Far from the Bamboo Grove reminisces about her childhood in North Korea and the importance...

Eden Grove Press 268 pages, $23. If Olympia Vernon were a painter instead of a writer her nightmare landscapes--part Hieronymous Bosch, part Francis Bacon--would swarm with animal, vegetable, and human life, often distorted, and placed against desolate backdrops daubed with reds,...

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