[DeepL Translation - needs review] I will return to my wife alive."
In the midst of Japan's deepening defeat, there was a Zero Fighter pilot who unabashedly spoke of his obsession with life, and his fellow pilots scorned him as a "coward." ......
Kentaro Saeki, a young man who had almost lost his purpose in life, and his sister Keiko, a freelance writer, begin to research their grandfather, Kyuzo Miyabe, who was killed in the Pacific War. There is nothing left to tell about their grandfath...
Basic plot: A brother and sister find out that their biological grandfather is actually a man who died in the war and their grandmother remarried after. They go around interviewing war time colleagues of their heretofore unknown relation to find out what sort of person he was. For me it had a lot of sections which dragged, and then it'd come out of nowhere and punch you in the feels.
The book is mostly monologues which means the grammar is less literary and more everyday. You could probably squ