Tokyo

479 pages

English language

Published June 30, 2005 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-81462-0
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OCLC Number:
57005772

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4 stars (2 reviews)

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5 stars

An unusual book, weaving together the first-person stories of a man and a woman, one Chinese, one English who have little in common except they both have had their lives changed by the Japanese rape of Nanking, a historical moment of inhumanity that was little known in the West until Iris Chang published her book about it in 1997. The Chinese man in this novel kept a diary of the horrific events as he tried first to ignore the peril, then help his pregnant wife escape the city after the Japanese have occupied it and begun their slaughter. Years later, he has the only existing copy of a film that the Englishwoman wants to see. She travels to Japan, obsessed with verifying something she read in a book about a particular horror, and tries to persuade the man, who now lives in Japan, to show her the film. He, in …

Subjects

  • Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937
  • Fiction

Places

  • Tokyo (Japan)
  • China
  • Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
  • Japan
  • Tokyo