This Footstool Earth: A Novel
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In This Footstool Earth, the final volume of The Japan Quartet, loose ends knit, recurring characters unspool or coil anew, and, as memories of atrocity thin, fiction's tissue mutates, melding cross-cultural encounters strangely.
“In This Footstool Earth John Zeugner finally dives head
first into the existential pool. Standing on familiar ground, Japan
and New England, he weaves disparate tales into a narrative both
dense and enlightening. It is a literal and literary tour de force
in which three old friends wait for their Godot while discussing,
among other things, the creative process, crimes against humanity,
religion, and Japanese American relations. It is a read worth the
rereading.”
—Bruce Stronach, Dean, Temple University, Japan Campus
“This is a novel about writing a novel—and about the serious nature
of the task. The net has been cast widely, with action moving from
New England to Southeast Asia and Japan: the whole of ‘footstool
earth’—kicked away by a God so weary of human abomination that he
has relegated humanity to the nightmare of history. And those
Asians! ‘No Jesus, no faith, no hope.’ Yet, choking in rivers of
blood, they cope.”
—Joseph Lawrence, Professor of Philosophy, College of the Holy
Cross
Product Details
- Title : This Footstool Earth: A Novel
- Author: Zeugner, John
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2018
- ISBN: 9781498245456
Beyond the four volumes of The Japan Quartet (Under
Hiroshima, 2013; The Game in the Past, 2017; Soldier
for Christ, 2014; This Footstool Earth, 2018), John
Zeugner has written a satiric chess thriller, Manila Gambit,
2016; a collection of three short novels, Food for Jackals,
2015; and a collection of short stories, Life-Arc Teaching
Tales, 2015.