I was attracted to the cover. I like the graphic style but I also love the image of an old man holding hands with a child. It speaks to me of a story of love and promises a story told across generations.
I was pleasantly surprised to read Mizuki’s narrative in poem form. It’s simple enough to understand but it makes you feel like every word is carefully chosen and as I read. Is it Haiku? I don’t know... but I appreciated the words more than I would with regular descriptive prose. I really like the short pages interspersed with the text eg “our memories weigh heavy on our soul like leaves dying on a tree.” How beautiful!
I’ve never seen anything like it before. We switch back into standard paragraphs for Grandfather’s story.
So far I feel like it’s a story of grief and the heavy burden of guilt that Grandfather has been carrying. It will be fascinating to read a Ww2 story from the perspective of a a Japanese character. I get the feeling that it’s going to be quite profound and I’d love to read the rest of the story to find out what part Grandfather played in Hiroshima.
I was pleasantly surprised to read Mizuki’s narrative in poem form. It’s simple enough to understand but it makes you feel like every word is carefully chosen and as I read. Is it Haiku? I don’t know... but I appreciated the words more than I would with regular descriptive prose. I really like the short pages interspersed with the text eg “our memories weigh heavy on our soul like leaves dying on a tree.” How beautiful!
I’ve never seen anything like it before. We switch back into standard paragraphs for Grandfather’s story.
So far I feel like it’s a story of grief and the heavy burden of guilt that Grandfather has been carrying. It will be fascinating to read a Ww2 story from the perspective of a a Japanese character. I get the feeling that it’s going to be quite profound and I’d love to read the rest of the story to find out what part Grandfather played in Hiroshima.