"Lafcadio Hearn. A Life."
The tale of
how one odd Irishman survived a terrifying
childhood and became the honoured ‘Brothers Grimm’ of
Japan. He reinvented himself entirely from the dereliction of his
European upbringing to become Koizumi Yakumo, the most treasured Westerner
of Japan.
Local nomads claim a cuckoo landed on his
tent at the time of his birth, water turned to mare’s milk in hispresence. When the entourage of lamas came to take him away to
Lhasa, three suns appeared in the valley.
Local nomads claim a cuckoo landed on his
tent at the time of his birth, water turned to mare’s milk in his