2023/036: Star Sand — Roger Pulvers

2023/036: Star Sand — Roger Pulvers

I was not allowing myself anything resembling hope. No landscape, no flower, no sea or sky or meadow could be that beautiful in wartime. Getting through each day required ignoring the beauty around me. [loc. 1001]

Set on the small Japanese island of Hatoma in the last days of the Second World War, Star Sand is presented as the narrative of Umeno Hiromi, a sixteen-year-old girl with a Japanese father and an American mother, who's living alone in a deserted house after the death of her aunt.( Read more... )