Tree of Heaven, by R.C. Binstock
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The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking. Kuroda, a reluctant officer trained as a botanist, is left in charge of a garrison town. When he comes upon a starving, filthy Chinese refugee about to be raped by his soldiers, a common occurrence, he does the remarkable: he rescues her and gives her his protection. Li has no choice but to accept it; she becomes his servant, and an extraordinary intimacy ensues. Psychologically taut, etched in spare, compelling prose, a deep yet dynamic novel of safety and risk, guilt and captivity, power and love. Published by R.C. Binstock Books in a new author's edition.
Tree of Heaven, by R.C. Binstock- Amazon Sales Rank: #750329 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Released on: 2015-03-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Extraordinary By A Customer This book is an extraordinary reading experience. During the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930's, there were examples of the most extreme barbarity by Japanese soldiers, comparable to the inhumanity practiced against Jews in the Holocaust. This book is set during that period and describes in novel form a relationship that develops between a Japanese soldier and a Chinese woman whom he rescues.I have rarely read a book that creates such a complex relationship between two people. The plot could so easily have become a melodrama about war, subservience, man and woman. Instead it felt like real lives being lived - so much ambiguity, so many things unresolved. Both the captor and the captive are strong and weak in surprising ways, experience fear and ultimately a kind of love, remember their families with deep and often conflicting emotions, feel so damaged by the horrors around them that they have trouble understanding who they are.The writing is exquisite, much of the description in simple declarative sentences that give every physical detail, every thought and emotion, tremendous immediacy.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Complexity of compassion in the clash of cultures By A Customer This is one of the most remarkable love stories I have ever read, partly because you are never sure how much these two people from different worlds can transcend their Japanese and Chinese natures to merge in a truly intimate way. Both Kuroda and Li have debts to pay, not only to each other but to those people to whom they have previously been connected. How can Kuroda express his personal compassion when he must also be true to his cultural imperatives and the men under his command? How can Li repay him for saving her life and then coming to truly love her, a lowly Chinese woman held in contempt not only by the soldiers but by her own people? There is a high price to pay, and it is paid in full. I will never forget this book and what it has taught me about the best and worst in humanity.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Somewhere between Heaven and Hell By Serena Nanking, 1938.In the middle of the atrocities, for a brief moment, two people (he a Japanese officer, she a Chinese captive) find some solace in each others company. Their story, narrated alternately by the aggressor and the victim, reveals the fragility of their intimacy, and takes us to the depths of the human heart, ravaged by the war and yet still capable of compassion and love.Desperately aware of their brutal surroundings, and for different reasons, Kuroda and Li seek to keep one another safe. However, they cannot escape from a world that screams for blood.The inevitable, gruesome ending, written with superb control, epitomizes the madness that was Nanking, but also, mercifully, leaves us wondering what we are, what we are capable of in terms of endurance, understanding, and forgiveness.
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