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| #247431 in Books | 1989-12-15 | 1989-12-15 | Original language:Japanese | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.30 x5.13l, | File type: PDF | 136 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A simple, innocent war story.|By shadow6000|This translation of Harp of Burma is a passable telling of a good story. At some points, it becomes clear the translator has become a little lost in how to best localize a foreign concept (especially in some descriptions of the main character, Shimamura's, actions), but it's a good effort. The story itself focuses on a company of Ja|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: Japanese|About the Author|Michio Takeyama (1903 - 1984) spent his early years in Seoul, Korea, then a Japanese colony. Primarily an essayist and a scholar
Harp of Burma is Japan's haunting answer to Germany's well-known requiem for the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma portrays a company of Japanese troops who are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the tropical jungles of Burma. The young soldiers discover that the trials of war i...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Harp of Burma (Tuttle Classics) | Michio Takeyama, Howard Hibbett. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.