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Book Review of The Laws of Evening : Stories

The Laws of Evening : Stories
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This book is filled with fictional personal essays relating to how various Japanese citizens coped during the decades after World War II. The book documents how a very traditional generation of Japanese adjusted to societal changes that all but wiped out traditional culture and life as it had been. In a different setting the Japanese whose voices we hear could be speaking for almost any modern postware generation anywhhere. Sad, nostalgic, courageous.