“The Last Paper Crane” by Kerry Drewery.
“You don’t know what I did,” he says. “But somebody younger has to know”.
This book is brilliant in so many ways. First of all, they way author created an atmosphere in the book. It starts with a poem like dialogue in 2018, between Mizuki and her grandad. Her grandad is hibakusha (bomb affected person). He starts his story is prose, when he was a boy and his dad left him a book before going to war, saying that there magic in books. Then the events jump back to August 1945.. Ichiro was having a laugh with his best friend Hiro, then they seen something falling from the airplane, he lost consciousness and when he wakes up the whole city is in the ash and ruin. He finds his friend and friends sister Keiko, the rest of his family hasn’t made it.
Hiro spends all his life folding 999 paper cranes from the pages of the book that his father gifted to him.
“Remember the legend?” He asks. “You must fold a thousand paper cranes, for your wish to come true.
The story made me cry several times, it’s about promise that Hiro made to his friend and his friends sister Keiko. Guilt that was haunting him all his life. And forgiveness. In the end of the book there is an instruction how to make a paper crane, and the red sheet of paper.
“You don’t know what I did,” he says. “But somebody younger has to know”.
This book is brilliant in so many ways. First of all, they way author created an atmosphere in the book. It starts with a poem like dialogue in 2018, between Mizuki and her grandad. Her grandad is hibakusha (bomb affected person). He starts his story is prose, when he was a boy and his dad left him a book before going to war, saying that there magic in books. Then the events jump back to August 1945.. Ichiro was having a laugh with his best friend Hiro, then they seen something falling from the airplane, he lost consciousness and when he wakes up the whole city is in the ash and ruin. He finds his friend and friends sister Keiko, the rest of his family hasn’t made it.
Hiro spends all his life folding 999 paper cranes from the pages of the book that his father gifted to him.
“Remember the legend?” He asks. “You must fold a thousand paper cranes, for your wish to come true.
The story made me cry several times, it’s about promise that Hiro made to his friend and his friends sister Keiko. Guilt that was haunting him all his life. And forgiveness. In the end of the book there is an instruction how to make a paper crane, and the red sheet of paper.