{"id":190,"date":"2007-07-06T11:11:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=190"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:05:09","slug":"yakuza-moon-memoirs-of-a-gangsters-daughter-by-shoko-tendo-translated-by-louise-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/yakuza-moon-memoirs-of-a-gangsters-daughter-by-shoko-tendo-translated-by-louise-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster’s Daughter by Shoko Tendo, translated by Louise Heal [in San Francisco Chronicle]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yakuza<\/a><\/p>\n

Schadenfreude<\/em>, of German origin, means joy at someone’s distress or misfortune \u2013 surely not the best of human reactions. But publishers have turned misery into a veritable gold mine with an endless array of voyeuristic best-sellers. From royals to ragamuffins, from addicts to abusers, expos\u00e9s line bookshelves. One thing’s for certain: Readers can take comfort\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 yes, take joy, even \u2013\u00a0 in knowing that their lives will never be quite that disastrous.<\/p>\n

Yakuza Moon<\/em> by Shoko Tendo is yet another addition to the schadenfreude genre. A best-seller in Japan in 2004, Moon<\/em> is Schaden-voll<\/em>, to say the least. Hollywood has had a heyday depicting the yakuza\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 the Japanese mob \u2013\u00a0 and Tendo’s memoir does little to dispel the image of the cruel, violent, power-driven mobster life.<\/p>\n

As the third of four children born to a mobster boss prone to violence, Tendo spends her childhood as a much-bullied pariah, unable to shake “the yakuza kid” label. As a schoolgirl, she loses all trust in adults after barely fighting off molestation by a young yakuza from her father’s gang. Her father is jailed, and upon his release, he becomes a violent drunk who comes home nightly escorted by bar hostesses. He abuses his wife, trashes their once-luxurious home and remembers nothing in the morning. …[click here to read more<\/a>]\n

Review<\/strong>: San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, July 6, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

“Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New & Notable Books,\u201d The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"yakuza-moon\"<\/p>\n

Schadenfreude<\/em>, of German origin, means joy at someone’s distress or misfortune \u2013 surely not the best of human reactions. But publishers have turned misery into a veritable gold mine with an endless array of voyeuristic best-sellers. From royals to ragamuffins, from addicts to abusers, expos\u00e9s line bookshelves. One thing’s for certain: Readers can take comfort \u2013 yes, take joy, even \u2013 in knowing that their lives will never be quite that disastrous.<\/p>\n

Yakuza Moon<\/em> by Shoko Tendo is yet another addition to the schadenfreude genre. A best-seller in Japan in 2004, Moon<\/em> is Schaden-voll<\/em>, to say the least. Hollywood has had a heyday depicting the yakuza \u2013 the Japanese mob \u2013 and Tendo’s memoir does little to dispel the image of the cruel, violent, power-driven mobster life.<\/p>\n

As the third of four children born to a mobster boss prone to violence, Tendo spends her childhood as a much-bullied pariah, unable to shake “the yakuza kid” label. As a schoolgirl, she loses all trust in adults after barely fighting off molestation by a young yakuza from her father’s gang. Her father is jailed, and upon his release, he becomes a violent drunk who comes home nightly escorted by bar hostesses. He abuses his wife, trashes their once-luxurious home and remembers nothing in the morning. …[click here to read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, July 6, 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New & Notable Books,\u201d The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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