New York. 1991. September 1991. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1991. September 1991. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0385418140. 198 pages. hardcover. Cover art & design by Bascove. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-Because she is afraid to fly during a time of international tensions, famous Japanese cellist Hisako Onoda boards a tanker en route to her concert in Rotterdam. When a conflict erupts and the Panama Canal is closed, the ship is forced to drop anchor in Gatun Lake. A guerrilla faction takes the passengers and crew captive, Hisako is raped, and we watch as the sensitive musician metamorphoses into a grenade-toting avenging warrior. This stunning, hallucinatory, semi-surreal fable pits an artistic, precariously balanced sensibility against a world of brutal political forces. Among the ship's passengers, all taken hostage by the People's Liberation Front, are a South African engineer, an erudite Egyptian and Hisako's wimpy young French boyfriend. Banks ( THE WASP FACTORY ) doesn't do much with these characters. His wrenching story, which can be read as a parable of the feminine principle reasserting itself and taking revenge on earth-destroying males, derives its power from the exploration of Hisako's mental states, her violent nightmares and her flashbacks to Japan, where she became a prodigy, strove to please her mother and missed a father she never knew, dead from radiation sickness in the aftermath of Hiroshima. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. inventory #27906.

Size: 8x5x0; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Size: 8x5x0; In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!