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Somewhere above the Clouds

Tan Twan Eng

4.47/5 (32 ratings)

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This piece first appeared in the Asia Literary Review [Autumn 2007, Volume 5] & is now available to read online on their website.

This short story revolves around Nakamura Masahiro, a character later developed [and renamed Yoshikawa Tatsuji] in The Garden of Evening Mists .

In an interview with Nicole Adar for Asymptote Journal (available online), Tan Twan Eng talks about writing Tatsuji's character for this story and subsequently The Garden of Evening Mists, telling us, "When I was thinking of a past for Tatsuji, I wondered why he would be interested in Malaya, and I wondered what he'd done in the war. At first he was just a common soldier, in Manchuria, or Nanjing, and then I thought—what if he was a kamikaze pilot? I took out this short story, but the tone was wrong, it was too flowery. Tatsuji is dry, he narrates in a very detached way. So I had to simplify the story to fit the tone of the novel."

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2007

Publisher:: Asia Literary Review

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:

ISBN13:

kindle Asin:: B0DM4C9RY9

Somewhere above the Clouds

Tan Twan Eng

4.47/5 (32 ratings)

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This piece first appeared in the Asia Literary Review [Autumn 2007, Volume 5] & is now available to read online on their website.

This short story revolves around Nakamura Masahiro, a character later developed [and renamed Yoshikawa Tatsuji] in The Garden of Evening Mists .

In an interview with Nicole Adar for Asymptote Journal (available online), Tan Twan Eng talks about writing Tatsuji's character for this story and subsequently The Garden of Evening Mists, telling us, "When I was thinking of a past for Tatsuji, I wondered why he would be interested in Malaya, and I wondered what he'd done in the war. At first he was just a common soldier, in Manchuria, or Nanjing, and then I thought—what if he was a kamikaze pilot? I took out this short story, but the tone was wrong, it was too flowery. Tatsuji is dry, he narrates in a very detached way. So I had to simplify the story to fit the tone of the novel."

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2007

Publisher:: Asia Literary Review

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:

ISBN13:

kindle Asin:: B0DM4C9RY9

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