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(★)(Translated by Teruyo Shimizu)(Titulo original : Kumo no Bohyo [雲の墓標]／ ´Burial in the Clouds´ is a powerful novel in the form of the war-time diary of a young Japanese college student inducted into the Imperial Navy at the height of World War II. Trained as a combat pilot, he is transferred to one of the new ´special attack´ or ´kamikaze´ units when the tide of the war turns against Japan.／ Like many young men of his generation, Jiro Yoshino, once a scholar of the humanities immersed in the study of poetry and philosophy, will offer everything he has to his country -his body, mind, and soul.／ By the age of twenty-five, Yoshino understands that his life, and those of his friends, will almost certainly be forfeit to the machinery of war. This English-language translation of Hiroyuki Agawa´s ´Kumo no Bohyo´ brings to life the harsh realities of war as it explores the personal stories of these young soldiers.／ ◆Hiroyuki Agawa, author of ´The Reluctant Admiral´, the bestselling biography of Admiral Yamamoto, was born in Hiroshima. On graduating from Tokyo University in 1942, he was trained in the Naval Air Corps in Taiwan and worked in communications and intelligence in China. One of the most celebrated Japanese authors of his generation, Agawa was awarded the Noma Bungei Prize in 1994 and the order of Culture [Bunka Kunsho] in 1999.) |
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