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Title: In the Woods of Memory
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781611720372
ISBN: 9781611720372
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Release Date: 22/06/2017
Description: Generally regarded as Okinawa's most adventurous and promising writer of fiction today.”Michael S. Molasky, University of MinnesotaIn the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that focuses on two incidents during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945: the sexual assault on Sayoko, 17, by four US soldiers and her friend Seiji’s attempt at revenge. Narrations through nine points of view, Japanese and American, from 1945 to the present day reveal the full complexity of events and how war trauma inevitably ripples through the generations.Akutagawa Prizewinner and activist Shun Medoruma was born in Okinawa. This is his first full-length work in English translation.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 127mm
Author: Shun Medoruma
Translator: Takuma Sminkey
Contributor: Takuma Sminkey (Translated by), Kyle Ikeda (Afterword by)
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Historical Fiction, Law & Politics, Military History, History
Release Year: 2017

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