Clouds above the Hill - A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1 (Hardcover)

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryotaro devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emerging onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century. Volume I describes the growth of Japan's fledgling Meiji state, a major "character" in the novel. We are also introduced to our three heroes, born into obscurity, the brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, who will go on to play important roles in the Japanese Army and Navy, and the poet Masaoka Shiki, who will spend much of his short life trying to establish the haiku as a respected poetic form. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	1979
Authors:	Shiba Ryotaro
Editors:	Phyllis Birnbaum
Translators:	Juliet Winters Carpenter • Andrew Cobbing • Paul McCarthy
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	390
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-50876-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-50876-2
Barcode:	9780415508766

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