Grass for my pillow /
First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodge...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Japanese |
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New York, N.Y. :
Columbia University Press
©2002.
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| Series: | Pacific Basin Institute book.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/maru12658 |
| Summary: | First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant peddler by the name of Sugiura until the end of the war in 1945. In 1965, Hamada works as a clerk at a conservative university, his war resistance a dark secret of the past that present-day. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0231501579 9780231501576 0231126581 9780231126588 |