A Thousand Stitches: A Novel by Constance O'Keefe

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By Constance O'Keefe

in keeping with the genuine tale of an American-born Kamikaze Pilot. The relevant tale of this novel is informed as a memoir written by way of the most personality, Isamu (Sam) Imagawa, who was once born in the US yet who served as a pilot for the Imperial eastern army in the course of global conflict II. the tale recounts the time Sam spent in Japan, from 1932 to 1963, spanning his early college days, his boyhood overwhelm and younger love for Michiko Miyazawa, his army occupation, his unsatisfied marriage, and his ultimate get away to the U.S.A. together with his moment spouse. The secondary plot, is informed from the point of view of Michiko, who recounts her lifestyles in Japan in the course of wartime and reconstruction. the 2 alternating plots are held jointly symbolically by way of a senninbari, a belt with 1000 stitches, which Michiko made for Sam whereas Sam was once a pilot for the japanese Kamikaze Corps. 1000 Stitches makes a robust anti-war assertion, summed up by way of Michiko’s pal Keiko: “How silly, silly, silly every thing approximately this struggle is!” This novel was once encouraged by way of a memoir, Shig: the real tale of an American Kamikaze," written by means of Shigeo Imamura, whose lifestyles heavily paralleled that of the hero of one thousand Stitches.

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