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Set during World War I, this is the story of Hannah, a young girl who believes in angels. Hannah and her family--sisters Libbie and Eve and their Tanta Rose--are all victims of an influenza epidemic. Hannah is forced to leave her family and when she finally recovers from her illness her faith in the power of angels aids her in finding her family.
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.

No work on Japan has attempted to tell so profundly and from so many aspects the development of the ideology of the Japanese as it is reflected in the daily manners and customs of their life. There is some underlining.