One Hundred Million Hearts : A Novel

Type

Book

Authors

Sakamoto, Kerri

ISBN 10

0676975119

ISBN 13

9780676975116

Tags

Japan, Sisters, Veterans, Women, Fathers--Death, Fathers and daughters, Kamikaze pilots, Psychological fiction, Japanese

Abstract

From the award-winning author of The Electrical Field comes this riveting story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war. Miyo and her father, Masao, live a reclusive life together in Toronto, as they have since Miyo's mother died in childbirth. When her father dies, Miyo learns that years before he had secretly married and had another child. Driven to discover what else he may have hidden, Miyo travels to Tokyo to meet Hana, her half-sister. She finds herself drawn into Hana's obsession with learning their father's war history-and is shocked to learn that he was a kamikaze pilot. How did he come back alive when only death bestowed honor on a kamikaze? What did he do to survive? Sakamoto skillfully weaves larger questions of guilt and obligation into an intimate, suspenseful account of a young woman and a country both confronting themselves.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Romans, nouvelles, etc
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kerri Sakamoto
ISBN: 0676975119 9780676975116
OCLC Number: 424012487
Description: 279 pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility: Kerri Sakamoto.

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