Zakuro

Banzô Toda has been missing for twenty-five years, since his deportation to a forced-labour camp in Siberia when the Soviet Union took Manchuria from Japan at the end of the war. His wife, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, has never given up hope of seeing him again. When their son Tsuyoshi discovers that his father has for years been living in a nearby town, under a different name and remarried, he wants to understand. A short novel about memory and forgetting, set against the 1970s and the relations between Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

150 pages in the original

Genres

Family, War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan, 1970s

Series

Au cœur du Yamato, book 2

First published

2008 by Leméac / Actes Sud

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9782760928282 (original)