The Hemingway Files

"A young American professor accepts a prestigious post in Japan, only to wonder whether he's being manipulated by a wealthy collector of literary treasures. In a gripping story both nuanced and layered, H.K. Bush creates a fable of literary obsession, longing, and the allure of the unknowable." - Janie Chang, author of Dragon Springs Road Fascinating. Compelling. Engaging. The Hemingway Files is all of the above and so much more. Bush knows his subjects--Whitman, Twain, Melville, Hemingway--and he threads the thin lines of fact and fiction weaving together a mysterious and truly enjoyable story. His novel teaches us about the fault-lines in our assessment of literature and in our own culture, and in doing so, he presents us with many lessons about the nuances of ourselves in relation to the literature we read and love. It is a novel that carries with it a measure of reality that is so rare in fiction these days, and with that, even in its liberally creative moments, gives us something true to hold onto and to hold steady with in the current of our modern world." - Dr. Matthew C. Nickel, author of Hemingway's Dark Night "A puzzle-box of a novel set in late twentieth-century Japan that entices and tantalizes the reader with an alluringly beautifulwoman, a sagacious teacher, and a literary treasure trove thatunlocksthe secret to one of the great mysteries in Hemingway biography." - Dr. James Hutchisson, author of Ernest Hemingway: A New Life "This book, naturally, will cause any Professor or Teacher of Literature to start drooling like Pavlov's dogs Bierka orChyorny which appear to have survived only in the pages of this book ...it was a pleasure to read this book; when you read it, take your time with it, as it will be over all too quickly." -JamieBrown, author ofSakura,Constructing Fiction,Conventional Heresies,andFreeholder