PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Soldiers in Hiding
A novel about war and the life that follows it. Focusing on returned soldiers and former servicemen, it probes isolation, trauma, and the friction between private wounds and society.
Work Information
A story of the isolation and damage left after war.
Rather than the war itself, the novel focuses on the silence and distance that remain afterward. The wounds carried by returned soldiers gradually surface through their friction with society.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Published
- 1986-01-01
- Pages
- 199 pages
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780871130464
- ISBN-10
- 0871130467
- Price
- 10524 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
Thirty years after World War II, Japanese-American jazz musician Teddy Maki is still haunted by his friend Jimmy Yamamoto's wartime death and his own failure to disobey a commanding officer's order to shoot an American prisoner
Reviews
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A fascinating tale of Japanese Americans caught up in World War II in Japan & how their lives unfold as a result.