![]() ![]() The boy graduates from the small fishing boat to work on a freighter where he proves himself by an act of valor while at sea where he risks his life in a storm. The father prohibits her from seeing the lower-class boy. Of course it’s understood that the daughter will marry one of the few other upper-class boys on the island. ![]() He falls in love with the newly arrived beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man on the island who owns a large freighter. The main character’s father died in WW II, so his work as a fisherman is the main support of his mother and young brother, although his mother is a diver. The island women are famous for their endurance diving to collect buckets of abalones, hopefully with an occasional pearl inside. Most of the men are fishermen going out daily in small 2-3-man boats. It’s a coming-of-age story of a young man on a small Japanese island. So imagine my surprise to find I’m reading a book about first love with a happy ending! (We know this from the blurbs on the cover, so I’m not really giving away plot.) ![]() The author himself headed up a ritualistic right-wing group and ended up committing ritual suicide. All have been dark, focused on planning secret rebellions, a planned murder, ritual suicide, death and reincarnation. I’ve read a half-dozen novels by this Japanese author. ![]()
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