Richard Wiley
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(b. 1944)
| 1986 | Soldiers in Hiding. Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning first novel focuses on the dilemma of a young Japanese American trumpet player who is in Japan at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack and is subsequently forced to fight with the Japanese army. One reviewer describes the protagonist as "a remarkably apt symbol for the dislocation of World War II." The California-born writer had served in the Peace Corps in Korea and had been a language teacher in Japan. His subsequent novels would include Fools' Gold (1988), Festival for Three Thousand Maidens (1991), Indigo (1992), and Ahmed's Revenge (1998). |
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