A book that P got from the library and was about to return unread.
I thought it was wonderful; about war and its miseries; the central figure is a photographer who takes a picture of a GI in Vietnam post some horrendous massacre; moves on to Tokyo (having sold the picture) but the backdrop is his family in Norfolk and his father, who fought the Japanese in WW2, and killed himself some years earlier.
Our hero’s Japanese girlfriend’s grandfather also fought in the war and is equally traumatised. The GI who was is the photo also turns up in Tokyo. So 2, if not 3 (if you include Vietnam) worlds bolt together, almost in a series of sharply depicted (narrative) photos.
Very good, and better than Hardy or Ms Ware.
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