An autobiographical account of fighting on the losing side in the Pacific War. This book tells the story of a young man who has lost everything yet manages to come to terms with loss and despair.
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An affecting study of a Japanese navy recruit's desensitization to slaughter and brutality in WW II, this youthful autobiographical novel was first published in 1949 when Agawa was 29. College student Koji Obata, a native of Hiroshima, feels a vague distaste for the military but becomes a naval cryptographer out of a sense of patriotic duty. Stationed in Tokyo, then in China, he first learns of Hiroshima's annihilation in a newspaper, and feels neither anger nor sorrow, only a sense of fatalistic resignation. Later he will return in anguish to his gutted hometown to find just one family member still alive. As the self-absorbed protagonist, immature, politically naive Koji, preoccupied with romantic flirtations and plodding code-breaking, makes long stretches of this lyrical novel a snooze. But Agawa scores with a nightmarish account of Hiroshima's destruction, visceral battle scenes and portrayals of Koji's friends who go to their deaths with decidedly mixed emotions. Agawa wrote the biography Yamamoto: The Reluctant Admiral.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: Japanese --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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