It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet Iantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
- ISBN13 9780571225361
- Publish Date 3 March 2005 (first published 1 January 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 March 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English