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a novel

Mizubayashi, Akira, 1951-2022
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Tokyo, 1938. Four amateur musicians passionate about Western classical music meet regularly at the Cultural Center to rehearse. Yu, a Japanese native, is an English teacher. His fellow musicians, Yanfen, Cheng, and Kang, are among the few Chinese students who have remained in the wake of the Japanese invasion of their homeland. With nationalistic tensions between the two nations threatening to boil over, the students' situation is precarious.One day, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by Japanese soldiers. In the skirmish, Yu's violin is broken and the four men are arrested at gunpoint, accused of plotting on China's behalf. Hiding in a wardrobe, Yu's eleven-year-old son, Rei, watches in terror as his father is led away. It is the last time he will ever see him. But Rei's escape is not luck.
Main title:
a novel / Akira Mizubayashi ; translated by Alison Anderson.
Author:
Imprint:
London : HarperVia, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780063093669 (hbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
3177857
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