Summer of the Big Bachi. In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. His wife is dead. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Summer Of The Big Bachi. A secret dating from Hiroshima at the time of the bomb will finally come to light more than a half century later in Los Angeles, the summer of Mas Arai, a gardener and widower is a Kibei -- born in the U.S., taken to Japan as a boy -- who made it back to California at Naomi Hirahara, born and raised in Southern California, is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, which features a Japanese American gardener and atomic-bomb survivor who solves crimes (SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI, GASA-GASA GIRL, SNAKESKIN SHAMISEN, BLOOD HINA and STRAWBERRY YELLOW)/5().
Mas Arai Ser.: Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara (, Trade Paperback) Pre-owned Pre-owned Pre-owned. $ $ previous price $ 67% off 67% off previous price $ 67% off. Free shipping Free shipping Free shipping. Summer of the Big Bachi. Pre-owned Pre-owned Pre-owned. $ Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. Summer of the Big Bachi (Bantam/Delta, ) was Naomi's first mystery. Buy Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 4 editions - starting at $ Shop now.
SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI (Mystery-Mas Arai-So. Cal-Cont) – DNF Hirahara, Naomi – 1st in series Dell Fiction, , US Paperback – ISBN: First Sentence: Mas Arai didn’t believe in Jesus or Buddha, but thought there might be something in bachi. In Japanese, bachi was when you snapped at your wife, and then tripped on a rock in the driveway. Summer of the Big Bachi presents an intriguing puzzle written with a true insider’s eye for Japanese American life”—Dale Furutani, Anthony award winning author of Death in Little Tokyo “A novel about social change wrapped inside a mystery, Summer of the Big Bachi toggles deftly between past and present and reveals the hopes and compromises that lurk on the fringes of the American Dream.”. About the Author. Naomi Hirahara is a freelance writer and journalist who served for several years as an editor of The Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese American daily newspaper. She is the author of two previous Mas Arai mysteries, Gasa-Gasa Girl and Summer of the Big Bachi, named one of "The Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers of " by the Chicago Tribune and a Publishers Weekly "Best Books of " pick.
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