Bill Barron
Bill Barron teaches at The University of Hong Kong and has traveled and worked extensively in East and Southeast Asia. He is a writer and photographer on a non-commercial basis.
Grass for My Pillow by Saiichi Maruya
BILL BARRON | 14 November 2002SAIICHI MARUYA's GRASS FOR MY PILLOW (originally published in 1966, but now out in a new translation by Dennis Keene) tells the story of Shokichi Hamada, a Japanese draft resister during the Pacific War.
Hamada's life as a mid-level clerk in the 1960s in a newly prosperous and... [ more ]
