✔ Novel about Japanese immigrants in Brazil ✔ Struggle and poverty of people dumped by the government ✔ Revenge
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ After WW2, 40,000 Japanese people crossed the ocean to Brazil to start better lives promised by Japanese government. Instead, they lived and died at the bottom of the society and jungle. Let the revenge begin.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽 1000+ pages in Japanese, but it's nonstop explosion of excitement that you can't put the book down.
After the second world war, Japanese government encouraged people in villages to move to Brazil, assuring them they would have land and work guaranteed. Instead the 40,000 people were left in the amazon forest to survive alone. Those who did survive and escape, lived at the bottom of various south American towns and cities.
That's the first book, then, we move on to the second book where they start their revenge.
Today's Japan, you meet 3 wild men, their faces look like Japanese but their eyes are dangerously bright; they have one mission, one target, the Japanese government.
You spent one chunk of a book following their horrible lives so you are 100% on the side of these men, and you've also learned that this really was how many of those Japanese lived in Brazil.
The book also reminds you how small we are in the huge endless nature of the amazon, one person is nothing. The nature would easily swallow you. Yet, we still live, we still regret the actions we did in the past, we still love.
It's an epic and 1000 pages full of drama, action and love. A must read (if it becomes available in English!)
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