Hut of Fallen Persimmons

by Adriana Lisboa

In a station of the metro in Rio de Janeiro, where both live, illustrator Haruki and artisan Celina meet by chance--and soon decide, however improbably, to travel together to Japan. Their shared destination: the famous Rakushisha, or Hut of Fallen Persimmons, where seventeenth-century haiku master Matsuo Basho once stayed. Their trip to Kyoto provides a context for each to meditate on the past, their feelings for each other, and questions of cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727211
• ISBN13: 9780896727212
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"