Tom Pflederer

Waiting for the Nightingale to Sing Tom Pflederer

(From the back cover) Tom Pflederer's log of his year teaching conversational English in Japan as a Christian missionary is a raw stream of anecdotes, impressions, and longings. Every new day unfolds with amusing situations, intriguing characters, and unfamiliar ideas to investigate and discuss. The entries flow through gentle but unrelenting clashs of culture without ever losing a sense of curiosity and civility. Waiting for the Nightingale to Sing is a study in cross-culutral evangelism in the context of naivete and awkwardness, audacity and persistence.