Okinawa: The History of an Island People AUTH-11041078 ISBN10: 0802817688

ISBN10: 0802817688

Joanne Turnbull's translations from Russian in collaboration with Nikolai Formozov include Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's The Letter Killers Club (winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Literary Translation into English) and Autobiography of a Corpse (winner of the PEN Translation Prize)

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Okinawa: The History of an Island People AUTH-11041078 ISBN10: 0802817688The first full length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language a standard work. Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential scholarly work in the field of Japanese studies. The histories of Japan, Okinawa and the entire Pacific region are crucially intertwined; therefore the review of this