It is an interesting and touching book as it started describing how Ichiro being the Japanese grandfather of Mizuki who has a secret that he wanted to tell his grandson about it.
The painful experience that Ichiro has gone through as being a victim of the World War 2 in 1945 as an atomic bomb has landed on Hiroshima. Being an obedient son, he wanted to keep his promise to his father by keeping the book, "The Tale of Genji", safe and at the same time keeping his promise to take care of his friend's, Hiro, sister Keiko when a dilemma as to sacrifice the book and saved Keiko or leave Keiko and keep the book?
The process of saving his friend,Hiro and his sister, Keiko has made the bloody and unpleasant into a touching story where it makes me wanted to complete the story as fast as possible so as to find out how the interesting story going to be built on.
The painful experience that Ichiro has gone through as being a victim of the World War 2 in 1945 as an atomic bomb has landed on Hiroshima. Being an obedient son, he wanted to keep his promise to his father by keeping the book, "The Tale of Genji", safe and at the same time keeping his promise to take care of his friend's, Hiro, sister Keiko when a dilemma as to sacrifice the book and saved Keiko or leave Keiko and keep the book?
The process of saving his friend,Hiro and his sister, Keiko has made the bloody and unpleasant into a touching story where it makes me wanted to complete the story as fast as possible so as to find out how the interesting story going to be built on.