THE FABULOUS PEOPLE

by Robert Hubner ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1942

The frayed fringe of the international circle in Tokyo while the war was in the making forms the background for a novel which is somehow odd, provocative, with a sense of the autobiographical, as an American correspondent tells the story of his love for Yuriko, the Japanese girl, whom he loses to the demands of family and country. There's a cross section of the foreign hangers on, -- Skinner, the soldier of fortune who capitalizes on Fascism in foreign centers, there's Peskar, the Turk, selling gold out of the country between jail sentences; there's Jadwiga, a white Russian, marrying for a passport; there's an Hawalian princess, an Arab, an Eurasian, a Japanese informer. A plotless novel, sprawly, episodic, but with a feel of authenticity, in sense of place and people and incident.

Pub Date: June 15, 1942

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1942

Categories: FICTION