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Yoko Moriwaki (森脇 瑤子, Moriwaki Yōko; 7 June 1932 – 6 August 1945) was a thirteen-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who lived in Hiroshima during World War II. [1] Her diary, a record of wartime Japan before the bombing of Hiroshima, was published in Japan in 1996. It was published by HarperCollins in English in 2013 as Yoko's Diary. [2]
It was Ogawa's first book-length work to be translated. [1] The Diving Pool is a triptych of psychological horror stories with a loosely connected theme about Japanese femininity, loneliness, and societal alienation. All three novellas have young female protagonists, a schoolgirl in "The Diving Pool" and young adult women in "Pregnancy Diary ...
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子, Ogawa Yōko, born March 30, 1962) is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. [1]
Yoko is injured from the bombing and the women are forced to walk the rest of the way. After receiving medical treatment in Seoul, Yoko, her sister, and mother board a train to Busan, and then a ship to Japan. When Yoko, her sister Ko, and her mother reach Fukuoka, Japan, it is not the beautiful, comforting, welcoming place Yoko dreamed of ...
Few people were closer to John Lennon and Yoko Ono than Elliot Mintz. The former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer first met the couple in the early seventies after interviewing Ono about her ...
On Books in the Media, the book was rated 4.25 out of 5, based on four critic reviews. [6] In the November/December 2019 issue of Bookmarks , the book was scored a 3.5 out of 5. The magazine's critical summary reads: "Another reviewer, in a different vein, mentioned The Diary of Anne Frank .
Mina's Matchbox (ミーナの行進, Mi-na no Kōshin, "Mina's March") is a novel by Yōko Ogawa.It was originally serialized in Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005 before being published as a novel in 2006 by Chuokoron-Shinsha, after which it won the 42nd Tanizaki Prize.
MARK ULRIKSEN mysterious stranger who blows into town one day and makes the bad guys go away. He wore a grizzled beard and had thick, un-bound hair that cascaded halfway down his