In this story set in 80s Japan, South-American and Japanese school kids lay on their backs along the train tracks and reminisce about legends of wars past – until a very real conflict disrupts their blissful youth
By Betina González and Meghan Flaherty for Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, part of the Guardian Books Network
In Japan everything always happened in reverse: wolves did not eat people, kamikazes were not afraid of death, grumpy people smiled, and Cinderella was a stoker’s son named Mamichigane.
Every day, Miriam thought about that typhoon-exhausted island she had never seen: Shuri Castle cloaked in flames, the drowned children of the Tsushima Maru, and the woman who came down from Heaven and had to stay on Earth because some man stole her magic kimono.
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