My Deepest Desire
$221.65
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
Summary
My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara’s final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grippingly moving meditation on the desire to live a different, fuller life, free from pain, isolation, and the intrusively haunting experience of tragedy, it is a demonstration of how dreams, memories, and traumatic despair intertwine inside a person’s psyche.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781613322963 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1613322968 |
| Author: | Tamiki Hara, Sandy Walker, Liza Dalby |
| Publisher: | New Village Press |
| Imprint: | New Village Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 178mm |
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About The Author
Tamiki Hara
Tamiki Hara (Author)
Tamiki Hara was a Japanese writer and poet. Born in Hiroshima, he lived through the atomic bombing in 1945. In the years preceding his death, Tamiki Hara wrote about the destruction he witnessed in autobiographical short stories and poems, making him a known figure in the atomic bomb literature genre.
Liza Dalby (Translator)
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. Her nonfiction books, Geisha and Kimono, have become classics, and her best-selling historical novel, The Tale of Murasaki, has been translated into nine languages. Dalby’s memoir, East Wind Melts the Ice, is a gardener’s diary and an enlightening excursion through cultures east and west. Dalby lives in Berkeley, California.
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