Published in the United States in 1986, this book has won numerous awards.
A moving, hidden story that has been adopted as a teaching material in junior high schools.
A long-awaited Japanese version of this classic, eagerly anticipated for its Japanese translation.
One night toward the end of the war, 11-year-old elementary school student Yoko is woken up by the news that "the Soviet army is approaching," and so begins a desperate escape to the Korean Peninsula with her mother and older sister, Kou, 16.
Amid food shortages and the deaths of her fellow countrymen, they endure relentless pursuit and merciless attacks by anti-Japanese partisans, as well as heartless violence from civilians, and make their way to their homeland, Japan.
A breathtaking, love-filled survival story filled with tears, candidly recounting the harrowing experiences of Japanese repatriates on the Korean Peninsula and in Japan before and after the end of the war.
