This remarkable novel is not only an imaginative work of the very
highest order but a cross-cultural tour de force of extraordinary
daring and vision. It begins in Tokyo in 1941, when Teddy Maki and
Jimmy Yamamoto, two young Japanese-American jazz musicians, are
stranded in Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, drafted into
the Japanese army and sent to the Philippines, the scene of bloody
conflict with guerrillas and American troops. Rather than act as
true soldiers, the two young men attempt to disengage themselves
from the savagery of a war in which they are unable to choose
sides. But such innocence is impossible to maintain. Thirty years
later, Teddy Maki, by then a star of Japanese television, is still
haunted by Jimmy's death and his own failure to disobey the order
of his commanding officer to shoot an American prisoner. The guilt
that poisons his relationship with his wife and son and with the
country in which he has chosen to live as a perpetual outsider
speaks to the moral issues raised by all wars--from Auschwitz to My
Lai.
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