| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
PZ 4 .O575 Fi |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13781 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Ooka, Shohei
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Fires on the plain
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Shohei Ooka ; translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - 1st ed.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Alfred A. Knopf,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1957.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - vi, 246 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - 2 copies (1957; 1969) translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Graphic, award-winning novel written by Japanese veteran of the war in Leyte, from the Japanese perspective.
The main character in the novel, Private Tamura, is a Japanese soldier who gradually loses his humanity due to sickness and starvation; he and his sick, hungry friends are turned away by headquarters as they were no longer worth the food they were being given, and had to survive on their own. Private Tamura sees his comrades so desperate for food that they turn to cannibalism, looting, and murder. Tamura himself kills a Filipino couple, simply because he stumbles upon them while he is in search of food. Still, he tries to keep his humanity alive.
Dramatic and powerful, it is based on actual events. Ooka was not in Leyte himself, as he was in Mindoro; but he experienced the same things his character in the novel did. Ooka became a noted writer in Japan after the war, and wrote of his own experiences as well as a detailed history of the war in Leyte.
Originally published in Japanese (the title in Japanese is "Nobi"), the book became a best seller and was made into an award winning movie. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Form subdivision - Fiction.
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