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FIRES ON THE PLAIN (246 pp.)-Shohei Ooka-Knopf...
Captured and sent home at war's end, Tamura is a madman and knows it. Six years later Tamura writes a book. Having committed himself to a madhouse, he asks his wife to divorce him, and she does. There Novelist Ooka leaves him, trying to figure out who or what he is. It seems unlikely that he will, though there are times when he thinks he might be an angel. "But if I am an angel of God, why am I so grieved? Why is this heart of mine, which should now be free of all earthly attachments...