Fires on the Plain
by:
Ivan Morris (author)
Shōhei Ōoka (author)
This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Set on a Philippine island during World War II where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the blows of the American forces landings, Private Tamura's own private battles cost him first his hope and then his...
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This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Set on a Philippine island during World War II where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the blows of the American forces landings, Private Tamura's own private battles cost him first his hope and then his sanity as he loses his own tenuous ties with human society.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804813792 (0804813795)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Pages no: 246
Edition language: Japanese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
World War II,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
A very interesting book - some passage of deep beauty, others of some obscurity. It is hard to tell what the book would be like in Japanese. I have a deep mistrust of reading anything in translation (though I am reading a great deal of translation at this point in my life).
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