tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867363623026037617.post6310633129780340574..comments2023-04-10T10:29:57.089+01:00Comments on Lines from the Horizon: Dead Languages Selected Poems 1946-1984Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867363623026037617.post-4254766978281207312010-03-10T04:10:01.808+00:002010-03-10T04:10:01.808+00:00One Man's Justice is a great book,a new transl...One Man's Justice is a great book,a new translation of Akira Yoshimura's book 'Typhoon of Steel' came out at the end of last year,by Merwin Asia Publishing (in my links),the battle of Okinawa told through the eyes of an Okinawan school boy.A couple of other well known titles are Michio Takeyama's Harp of Burma,made into a film and also filmed was Shohei Ooka's Fires on the Plain (i think i'm going to read this novel very soon).Shusaku Endo's book Sea and Poison is another interesting novel.Also a novel i read recently which i've not posted on yet is Hiroyuki Agawa's Citadel in Spring,the story of a group of students who are seperated as they get drafted,one sent to Kagoshima.There's also a short story collection i'm reading at the moment,but i'm going to post on that one soon!.me.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944496306989406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867363623026037617.post-24468774928374094242010-03-10T00:48:45.001+00:002010-03-10T00:48:45.001+00:00This sounds like a very interesting work-I normall...This sounds like a very interesting work-I normally do not read much poetry in translation-I sometimes wish there were more literary works by Japanese participants in WWII-or perhaps I have just not yet discovered them-my favorite post world war II Japanese novel so far is One Man's JusticeMel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.com