A boy called H: a childhood in wartime Japan
This autobiographical novel follows the fortunes of a boy, and of a nation, from the fateful prewar 1930s to the early postwar period.
This autobiographical novel follows the fortunes of a boy, and of a nation, from the fateful prewar 1930s to the early postwar period.
"This fictionalized autobiography ... recreates the boyhood years of the eponymous H or Hajime Senoh. The Senohs, a Kobe family of modest means, were distinguised by their Christian faith and their extensive contact with foreigners ... Precocious, inquisitive, and irreverent, H …