Bøker av Christopher Craig

Roarke Davenport is a gifted painter and an affable wreck. Hampered with self-doubt and self destruction, he hopes to make it out of his small town before drowning in a river of his own bullshit. With a little luck and a kick in the ass he just might make it. Packed with unforgettable characters and rich dialogue, Chris Craig expertly captures life in a small town and the restless hearts that reside there.

With a state focused more on the goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell to local elites in villages across Japan to bring rice production into the modern era. This book explores these elites, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.