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Title: Harp of Burma (UNESCO Collection of Contemporary Works) by Michio Takeyama, Howard Hibbett ISBN: 0-8048-0232-7 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A classic anti-war story
Comment: One of my favorite books. It contains one of the most brilliant and moving scenes ever written. Far from nationalistic propoganda, I found this to be a moving portrayal of the pacific war and how the Japanese troops felt during the closing stages of it. Rather than faceless, evil minions dominant in American popular culture, this book employs well shaped characters to explore what people do when a war is lost and their country lays in ruins. This book asks important questions about whether war is inherent to materialistic societies and whether human beings can kill each other once their humanity is revealed. The answers to these questions shape this book and form the thoughtful basis of an engaging story.

Rating: 5
Summary: Far more than meets the eye
Comment: This book challenges your preconceptions, demands that you rethink what war is. More than anything, this book investigates the problem of meaning - what does it mean to be human? Examining the problem of meaning, particularly in the context of war and contrary to many persons preconceptions, this book opens the mind if one lets it. While superficially the story of Japanese soldiers at the end of World War Two, the underlying message should disturb one and all: the "enemy" is often all too human and all too humane. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic! Emotional! A heartbreaking war story
Comment: One man, Mizushima, was the pride of the platoon. His absance worried them, and somehow they kept their hope through song. In the end, Mizushima's spiritually led mission to bury the screaming souls of his fellow country patriots leaves his confused commerads with closure. Thus, it is a terrific story of triumph and hope.

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