In the intellectual circles of middle class Tokyo during the beginning of WW II, a young man named Yuji struggles to understand if his destiny will be to write poems or to fight as a soldier. Japan is invading China and the threat of military conscription is very real. Unexpectedly, Yuji finds himself allied with the Feneon family, silk traders from France, in whose home he and his friends polish their French. For today's reader, who knows of the thousands of deaths resulting from the bombing of Tokyo, the sad dramatic irony of how war affects the lives of ordinary people is overwhelming. 's rich, sensuous descriptions set against Yuji's angst and inner turmoil open up another way to view the chaos of the time.
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Tokyo. Japan is at war with China, and Yuji Takano is clinging to the life he has made for himself as a young poet the company of his friends, the monthly meetings of the French Club at M...
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