Akiyuki Nosaka – The Whale that Fell in Love with a Submarine (retail) (epub)
General:
Name: Akiyuki Nosaka – The Whale that Fell in Love with a Submarine (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
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Book:
Title: The WHALE THAT FELL IN LOVE WITH a SUBMARINE
Author: Akiyuki Nosaka
Language: angielski
Year: 2003
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 9781906838485
Total pages: 128 str.
Description:
Striking and eloquent stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex
A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body’s water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a wolf rescues a sick child abandoned by her parents, only to die himself at the hand of men. However, bunkers can also become real homes, a small Japanese girl and an American POW briefly understand each other and a miraculous tree feeds starving children…
This is war, no doubt, but told by someone who understands how children truly experience war and its aftermath – the bombings and parents’ deaths, the life of orphans who roam the streets, the starvation and blind violence in a society beyond destruction.
Akiyuki Nosaka remembers what it was like to be a child caught in war-torn Japan in 1945, and he retells his…
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