Word: shohei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRES ON THE PLAIN (246 pp.)-Shohei Ooka-Knopf...
...Fires on the Plain, Japanese Author Shohei Ooka has written what critics in his native land think is their first well-written book about the war. The novel has sold 100,000 copies, and it is not hard to see why. In translation it has moments of obscurity, but it still conveys powerfully the gradual crackup of a war-shattered man who, in his last extremity, can relate himself neither to humanity...