| #1300674 in Books | Columbia University Press | 2012-04-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .80 x5.90 x8.90l,.95 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| The (Rising) Sun Also Sets|By Crazy Fox|You could read hundreds of history books and still not really grasp what world events mean to individual lives, to their hopes and dreams and to their personal comedies and tragedies. Hayashi Fumiko does just that in this fine novel, and all while telling a good story in a sparse and stark prose style befitting her subject, a deteriorat|From Publishers Weekly|This poignant masterpiece tracks the ill-fated affair of Koda and Tomioka as they struggle to survive in the tumultuous years of WWII. Koda meets and falls in love with Tomioka while working in southern Vietnam, but the two go their own di
In this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel's characters, particularly its resilient heroine Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break out of the morass of indecisiveness. Set in the years during and after World War II, their lives and damaged psyches reflect the confusion of the times in which they live. <...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Floating Clouds (Japanese Studies Series) | Fumiko Hayashi. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
