Noma Children's Literature Award
兄貴 (理論社の大長編シリーズ)
A children’s novel about brothers who lose their home in the Osaka air raids and grow through evacuation and postwar disorder. In a harsh era, their sense of justice and family bonds are tested.
Work Information
兄貴 reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 今江祥智.
Air raids, evacuation, and postwar life are seen through children’s eyes, turning major historical events into family experience. Shinta Cho’s illustrations give an approachable doorway into difficult material.
Review Summaries
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Readers tend to value the way the subject is approached and the calmness of the prose. The work is received less as a fast-moving narrative than as one to read carefully for its historical setting and inner lives.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 理論社
- Published
- 1982-03-01
- Pages
- 238 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784652010075
- ISBN-10
- 4652010079
- Price
- 100 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論
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