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[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: A sweater with the initials "H" of Hajime Seo knitted into the chest. Even in Kobe, a city with many foreigners, there was no one wearing such a sweater around 1937. ...... This is a story of love, laughter, and courage involving "Boy H," or Hajime Seo, who was raised by a dressmaker father and a Christian mother, and whose curiosity and sense of justice are more vigorous than others. Winner of the Mainichi Publication Culture Award S...

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355

ISBN:

4062081997

ISBN13:

9784062081993

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basilsaucesays

June 4, 2022

This is the first of a 2-volume story about a boy living in Kobe in the years before and during World War II. His family are an awkward fit for the time: his mother is a devout Christian, and his father is a tailor of Western suits. The chapters are episodic, each about its own incident or theme. Some of them are about the ordinary life of H as a young boy in the Kobe of the time, but even in the slice-of-life chapters there are small details to remind us that a war is happening. Little by litt

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