The disillusionment of post-World War II Japan is reflected in the bitter conflict between ten-year-old Saya's parents as they face the abandonment of empty traditions and adapt to the overthrow of established values

Cranes at Dusk (English and German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Matsubara, Hisako

Contemporary

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Cranes at Dusk

Futura Publications

<p>A daughter chronicles the decline of her once-great Japanese family dominated by a father dedicated to upholding the standards of the samurai ruling class in the face of an increasingly industrialized Japanese society</p>

Samurai (English and German Edition)

Times Books

We are in the summer of 1945 in the old imperial city of Kyoto. Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki come rumors of entire populations devastated by a bomb dropped from an aircraft light abroad. People expect the instructions of the Emperor: Death before dishonor and defeat. But Japan gives up and life goes on. Reach a tall, blond, with blue eyes, carrying crosses and dark glasses and with them also arrived radical changes in the daily life of the Japanese, even in small Saya, through whose vision of the world mutation in this story. Saya lives not only the experience of violence, tenderness, hunger and death, but also the conflict between his father, a major Shinto priest who senses the advent of a new world, who understood and tolerated his mother, stubbornly clinging to their ancient traditions of the samurai grandfather.

Pájaros del crepúsculo (Andanzas) (Spanish Edition)

Tusquets Editores S.A.

Samurai (Fbula) (Spanish Edition)

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