
Books / Reviews | RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN Dec 22, 2018
Toriko Takarabe's 'Heaven and Hell': A child's perspective of war's aftermath
by Robert P. Largess
Toriko Takarabe's "Heaven and Hell," a 2005 novel recently translated into English for the first time, provides the key to Takarabe's poetry and childhood, both of which were defined by Japan's brief colonial adventure in Manchuria.