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“Fires on the plain” Shohei Ooka (1952) Review | Crossing the line as a human


Fires on the plain
Shohei Ooka, 1952
野火
大岡昇平
Read in 2021.10
check synopsis and details on amazon.com

✔ World War Two Historical fiction
✔ Solitude of a solder
✔ Taboo as human


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★★ Isolated at the war on the field, he questions everything. It's haunting, but not merely because the plot is shocking, it's because, even people like me, who never had the experience, can recognise his internal struggles.

🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

I had always wanted to read it, but hadn't, and when I finally started reading it, I just wanted to get it done with and delete it from my memory. 
Too painful.
It's so daunting and it haunts you, it's about a man who's completely isolated during the war and he questions his survival, moral, humanity, everything outside of him as well as inside.

You're on the edge and a step away from the death. Do you trust or not, and what do you trust, yourself? others? Can he trust himself to stay a human or will he cross the line?

The book is haunting, but not merely because the plot or its description is shocking, it's because, even people like me, who never had the same experience or anything remotely close, can recognise his internal struggles.



🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics) 

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics) 

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
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