Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori (California Legacy Book)

Mori, Toshio; Mori, Steven Y.; Inada, Lawson Fusao

ISBN 10: 189077135X / ISBN 13: 9781890771355

Published by Heyday Books, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori (California Legacy Book)
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189077135X
• ISBN 13: 9781890771355
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori dreamed of being an artist, a Buddhist missionary, and a baseball player. Instead, he grew flowers in the family nursery business, and influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Heming-way produced a body of extraordinary fiction. His well-crafted, humorous, wise tales celebrate the Japanese American community he knew so well, and reach beyond it to describe the essential human condition. The promise of a writing career was tragically interrupted when the publication of his first collection of short stories, Yokohama, California, was cancelled after the United States entered World War II. Mori was soon on his way from Oakland to Topaz, Utah one of 110,000 citizens of Japanese descent held in internment camps between 1941 and 1944. When Yokohama, California was finally published in 1949, Toshio Mori was, at last, able to claim his place as "one of the most important new writers in the country" (William Saroyan). Unfinished Message includes fifteen stories, a novella, letters, photographs, and an interview with Toshio Mori. Some of this material has never before been published.

About the Author

Lawson Fusao Inada is a sansei poet and advocate for the advancement of Asian American literature. He is editor of Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Heyday, 2000), co-editor of Aiiieeeee! (Dutton, 1997) and The Big Aiiieeeee! (NAL/Dutton, 1991) and author of Legends from the Camp and Before the War: Poems as They Happened (Coffeehouse Press, 1993). He is a professor at Southern Oregon University and lives in Ashland, Oregon.