While both ideas had the virtue of interrupting the seductions of biographical essentialism, one comes up against their ...

In Chinese Postman, Castro’s elderly protagonist, Abe, leads an unobtrusive life in the Adelaide Hills, sifting through ...

Bilodo had been intercepting her letters for two years now, and whenever he spotted one while sorting his post, he always experienced the same shock, the same shiver of awe. He would quietly slip ...

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Kawase Mika, director of "The Postman from Nagasaki." The documentary is inspired by a book published in 1984. Its author, Peter Townsend, was a British Royal Air Force pilot during World War II ...

It is narrated by Abraham, or “Abe”, Quin, whose life traces the loose shape of Castro’s own: he, too, is an author of 13 books, a retired professor, and a one-time postman. The book is sold ...