Since then, Japan has suffered a price deflation that has still not come to an end. There have been several false dawns during those 15 dismal years, most notably in 1996-98 when an incipient recovery turned into a fresh recession and produced both a banking crisis and an apparent enthusiasm for reform. After all, the case for cynicism is compelling. Really? The very unJapanese event that took place on September 11th-a snap general election called on a policy issue and won in spectacular fashion by the reformist prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi-has changed perceptions of Japan as an irredeemable dud, but not much. Now, however, the time for lectures is over. Those lectures, although received politely by a newly self-deprecatory Japanese elite, seemed to be ignored. In the 15 years that followed, amid crashing stock- and property markets, mountains of dud debt, scores of corruption scandals, vast government deficits and stagnant economic growth, Japan mutated from being a giver of lessons to a recipient of lectures, all of which offered recipes for its reform and revival. Paperback (November 22nd, 2021): $20.NO COUNTRY in modern history has moved so swiftly from worldwide adulation to dismissal or even contempt as did Japan, in a process that began more or less as the temple bells were tolling in the new year of 1990.Historical - 20th Century - World War I.This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. Widely hailed as one of Hemingway's most significant novels, 'The Sun Also Rises' remains a timeless and engrossing masterpiece of American literature.

The novel is written in Hemingway's unique style and employs his 'iceburg theory' of writing, which favored minimalism in descriptions that allowed a work's deeper meaning to remain implicit. The friends and lovers often fight amongst themselves while they spend their time drinking and wondering what to do next. Jake and Brett spend their time with other American expatriates living in Paris and the group of friends, dislocated by war and united in their dissatisfaction with their lives in America, seek out entertainment and distraction in a fishing trip and an adventure to Spain to see the bullfighting. Jake was wounded in the war and is physically unable to consummate his love for Brett, while Brett is unable to decide what she wants in life and drifts from one relationship to another, afraid to be alone.

The novel centers around the frustrated love story between the protagonist, Jake Barnes, and the twice-divorced and sexually free Lady Brett Ashley.

First published in 1926, 'The Sun Also Rises' is Ernest Hemingway's enduring novel of the Lost Generation and their directionless wandering through life in Europe following World War I.

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