Soldiers Alive (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780824827540)

When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation. They could not predict, however, that Ishikawa would write an unsettling novella so grimly realistic it would promptly be banned and lead to the author's conviction on charges of "disturbing peace and order." Decades later, Soldiers Alive remains a deeply disturbing and eye-opening account of the Japanese march on Nanking and its aftermath. In its unforgettable depiction of an ostensibly altruistic war's devastating effects on the soldiers who fought it and the civilians they presumed to "liberate," Ishikawa's work retains its power to shock, inform, and provoke.

Author: Ishikawa Tatsuzo
ISBN-10: 0824827546
ISBN-13: 9780824827540
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2003
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.52w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2004 pg. 82 - Recommended/Special Interest