Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene

Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene - Hardcover

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Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene - Hardcover

Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene - Hardcover

by Shirley Hazzard , Donald Keene
$171.00
$171.00

Book Overview

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Brought together by the death of a mutual friend in the late 1970s, they discovered a profound connection built on mutual affinities for literature and culture and common values of humanism and cosmopolitanism.

Expatriates of No Country presents Hazzard and Keene's correspondence, offering readers a new and intimate perspective on the work and achievements of these towering figures. Both left behind their countries of birth, and they shared experiences of displacement, estrangement, and fashioning new lives and selves in adopted homelands. Hazzard, who departed from Australia as a teenager without completing her formal education, led an expatriate life in New York and Italy as she attained literary fame. Keene, a pacifist who served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, devoted himself to the literature and culture of Japan, where he became revered. Their erudite and elegantly written letters trace the larger story of their friendship, finding striking overlaps between their distinctive worlds. Recording a vanished way of literary and intellectual life, Expatriates of No Country casts a new light on two extraordinary people through their unlikely connection.
ISBN9780231214445
Author Shirley Hazzard , Donald Keene
PublisherColumbia University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) is the author of Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and several works of fiction, including The Evening of the Holiday, The Bay of Noon, and The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lived in New York City and Capri.
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Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including the definitive multi-volume history of Japanese literature. He lives in Tokyo and New York City.

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