Barefoot Gen series

Author:Keiji, Nakazawa

1. Volume One, A cartoon story of Hiroshima
2. Volume Two, The day after
3. Volume Three, Life after the bomb
4. Volume Four, Out of the ashes
5. Volume Five, The never-ending war
6. Volume Six, Writing the truth
7. Volume Seven, Bones into dust
8. Volume Eight, Merchants of death
9. Volume Nine, Breaking down borders
10. Volume Ten, Never give up

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A semi-autobiography about the author’ life in Hiroshima city after the atomic bomb. Written in Manga style, has been translated into many languages and animation movie. This graphic novel is about the life of young boy, Gen who survived during the final months of world war II, struggling to live in poverty. In the days of the bombing attack Gen and his family witnessed the horrors and the ruin of the city, dead, and severely burn. The life after the bomb, how the family reunited, the nation was rebuilt conditionally under the American occupation. This is war from the Japanese perspective which must be read comparatively to other international point of views.

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Languages: Japanese, English, French, etc.

An artist of the floating world

Author: Kazua Ishiguro
Citation: Ishiguro, Kazuo. An artist of the floating world, London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
Description: By  the author of, the remains of the day, a Japanese- British novelist, Kazua Ishiguro. A story of Masuji Ono, the artist who work for Japanese imperialism during the second world war. The story’ timeline starts from post war period. The changes of his life, Japanese culture and society after the war. Throughout the book, written in the first narrative, Uno speaks to the readers directly, describes of situation back to the war and how it effects his daughter’s marriage. 
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Awards
Man Booker Prize Nominee (1986), Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (1986), حائزة على جائزة ويتبريد لعام (1986)
Formats: Print book, ebook
Language: English, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, etc.

The rice mother

Author:  Rani Manicka.
Citation: Manicka, Rani. The rice mother, London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2011
Description:The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, Sri Lankan-Malaysian novelist, won the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and has been translated into 22 languages. The story of 14 years old, Lakshmi leaves her Sri Lankan village for a life of luxury in Malaysia to get married a widower of 37, who lied to her and her family with the fact that he lives in poverty. she endures hardship and poverty, giving birth to six children. The story is narrated in turn by Lakshmi and various family members during a period of the Japanese occupation of Malaysia. The story is told through the shifting perspectives of different family members spanning 4 generations. 
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Awards: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific (2003), POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards Nominee for Fiction (2011)
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Languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Macedonian, etc.

Miss Burma

Author: Craig, Charmaine

Citation: Craig, Charmaine. Miss Burma, New York : Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2017

Description:Charmaine Craig, a faculty member in the Department of Creative Writing at University of California tells a story of one family based on her mother’s life during the war in Burma. Miss Burma tells the story through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa from 1920s, British colonialism, Japanese invasion to the military rules in 1960s. The love story of the two different ethnic groups, their hardship, and separation between the World War II during the Japanese Occupation. The story of the ordinary people for their freedom after the war when the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, and Benny was one of this group. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups. The book tells the complex relationship of the lovers within in the internal war between ethnic groups and when their daughter become miss pageant under the military government.

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Formats: printbook

Languages: English

The rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Author:  Iris Chang

Citation: Chang, Iris. The rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, New York  : BasicBooks, 1997.

Description:The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, a Chinese- American journalist was first published on 1997. This book has been translated into many languages and become talk of the town as it was a shocked story which never be told before. The book won the New York Times Notable Books of the Year on 1998. In 2007, an American documentary film, Nanking, was released. The story was motivated in part by the author own grandparents' stories about their escape from the massacre. This book tells of the Japanese occupied the accident town of Nanking in December 1937 through three perspectives of the Japanese soldiers who witnessed and took part, the Chinese survivors, and about the European and American residents who stayed and created a "safety zone" within the city. This painful story has been criticized by many of political leaders, and historians as well as it influenced for many academic and political publications.

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Awards: New York Times Notable Books of the Year ( WON AWARD in 1998 )

Formats: print book, ebooks, Audio book

Languages: English, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, French