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About the product In Japan, «Sakura Branch» became a bestseller, and the British, skeptical about the attempts of foreigners to understand their national character, greeted «Oak Roots» very favorably. Since its first publication, the book has been published and reprinted dozens of times. Times and our attitude to the world change, but this book is still a reliable «guide» for travelers to Japan and England. Abstract «Sakura Branch» and «Oak Roots» — were and remain truly a masterpiece of national journalism. The striking brightness and imagery of the language, the amazing depth of penetration into the original world of English and Japanese national culture captivate the reader and serve as the key to understanding foreign reality. In Japan, «Sakura Branch» became a bestseller, and the British, skeptical about the attempts of foreigners to understand their national character, greeted the «Oak Roots» very favorably Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov, an international journalist, writer who worked for many years in China, Japan, and England. A new direction in domestic journalism is associated with his name — the creation of a psychological portrait of a foreign society. The author’s creative credo: «to convince the reader that one cannot measure someone else’s life by one’s own yardstick, one cannot rely on the usual system of values and criteria, for they are by no means universal, like the grammatical norms of our native language.» In 1985, the author was awarded the USSR State Prize for these works. In 2010, the President of the Russian Federation presented Vsevolod Ovchinnikov with the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, fourth degree. …
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