Also, made into a movie. In the years following her mother's suicide, Yuki develops an inner strength in coping with her distant father, her resentful stepmother, and her haunting, painful memories. When he is captured, he is faced with the decision to watch the torture of his followers or to renounce his faith. In 1945, they are warned of a communist attack and flee to Seoul hoping to make connections to Japan. Instead, they begin a life as refugees.
Events are real, yet touched with a dreamlike symbolism.
Yukio Mishima Life is lonely in a small fishing village for Shinji until he sees a beautiful girl, Hatsue, who dives into the cold sea for abalone. Five essays that detail growing up in the Japanese community in Fresno, California. Tooru Kanazawa A family saga begins in 1897 when Matajuro Fuse, hoping to find gold, leaves his family in Japan to come to Alaska. Included is one of his earliest about a Japanese boy and a black American pilot captured in a Japanese village. The third title in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy finds Honda meeting a Thai princess who he believes is a link in Kiyoak 's reincarnation chain.