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by D Lee (Author) "TOM HURLEY dove into the embassy pool, slipping into the hush and cool of the water ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; 1 edition (16 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0393058123
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393058123
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,081,056 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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When a young American woman goes missing in 1980 Tokyo's sexual underworld, a young U.S. Embassy official considers his prospects for finding her and enlists the help of a neurotic and unpopular Japanese police officer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "The search for love and kinship", 21 Aug 2004
By M. J Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Part mystery, part character study, and part treatise on the ramifications of race, Country of Origin is probably one of the most unique books to come out this year. With a stark, concise, yet distinctively competent style, Lee has written an engaging and quite illuminating story set against the background of Japan in the early nineteen eighties when there is a lot going on in the world - the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, the Olympic boycott, and the Iranian hostage crisis. The story centers on the disappearance of the young American mixed-race girl Lisa Countryman, and the efforts to find her by the American Consular officials and the local police in Tokyo. The narrative cleverly jumps backwards and forwards in time - from the night of her disappearance, told from Lisa's point of view, to the present to where Tom Hurley, the young consular official is looking for her. Throughout this all the characters, whether mixed race Americ