25 Apr / A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan by Kappa Senoh, translated by John Bester [in AsianWeek]
Newly released paperback edition of critically acclaimed autobiographical novel which details the life of a young boy in 1930s Japan through World War II, whose father is a secret anti-war activist and his mother a Christian evangelist.
Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, April 25, 2003
Readers: Adult
Published: 2003 (United States)
By in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation
Tags > AsianWeek, BookDragon, Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan, Civil rights, Colonialism, Coming-of-age, Family, Father/son relationship, Historical, John Bester, Kappa Senoh, Parent/child relationship, Religious differences, War