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Genre Group Read (Humour) - December 2016 - You Are Not So Smart
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I finally finished it! This book moves pretty slow. The story covers many years. It takes place in Malaysia before, during, and after world war II, well sort of. It is a story within a story. The main character Phillip is an older man telling a Japanese woman, Michiko, about his youth during the war. She has shown up on his door step sick because of the bombing in Hiroshima that happened in her youth. She lived on the nearby island of Miiyajima, and has come to ask Phillip about the life of the
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