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In the opening pages we find Kabuo Miyamoto on trial for murder. The time period isn't immediately clear, but before long the reader learns the story takes place less than 10 years following WWII, and anti-Japanese feelings still run high. This is not a story of a murder trial, though that is the vehicle of the story, and it is not just a story of racial prejudice and hatred, though those are certainly important elements. We are lead, rather, with the background of race and prejudice, to examine
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This book is set around the trial of Kabuo Miyamoto for murder in the first degree of Carl Heine. Interspersed through the trial are flashbacks via the memories of witnesses and also, Ishmael Chambers, a journalist covering this trial. These flashbacks expand to 10 years prior the trial - to the time before the war.
I think this book is in exploration to human nature: judging by appearances, holding on to the past, living under someone's shadow, and the ease of deception.
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I think this book is in exploration to human nature: judging by appearances, holding on to the past, living under someone's shadow, and the ease of deception.
I found it was a bit of a ...more
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