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Soldiers Alive

Soldiers Alive

Cipris, Zeljko
Tatsuzo, Ishikawa

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 0824826965
ISBN13: 9780824826963
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Mar 10 2004
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation. They could not predict, however, that Ishikawa would write an unsettling novella so grimly realistic it would promptly be banned and lead to the author's conviction on charges of disturbing peace and order. Decades later, Soldiers Alive remains a deeply disturbing and eye-opening account of the Japanese march on Nanking and its aftermath. In its unforgettable depiction of an ostensibly altruistic war's devastating effects on the soldiers who fought it and the civilians they presumed to liberate, Ishikawa's work retains its power to shock, inform, and provoke.

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