Riding the East Wind
by Otohiko Kaga
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A Japanese-American pilot in the days before Pearl Harbor is the hero of this novel which illuminates the tensions between the U.S. and Japan as war between them became inevitable. The hero, Ken Kurushima, is torn by his loyalty to both countries.Tags
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- "Banzai!" the crowd roared, and a hundred little rising-sun flags fluttered together.
- Blurbers
- Oe, Kenzaburo
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.635 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese fiction 1945–2000
- LCC
- PL855 .A3 .I5313 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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- English
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