Country of Origin

Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the American embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is 100 percent Japanese but deemed an outsider.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/2005
ISBN: 9780393327069
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.85d

Review Citations: New York Times 07/10/2005 pg. 32