PEACEFUL CIRCUMSTANCES IBD

Sinopse

Eric is a black American soldier stationed in Japan at the height of the Vietnam War. Karen is a white American student who falls in love with him.Eric is about to be sent to the front line in Vietnam. But he refuses to kill &hellip, and the two go into hiding in Tokyo, pursued by both the Japanese police and the American military police.Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Japanese students are demonstrating on the streets in protest. The Japanese Riot Police are poised to attack.Peaceful Circumstancesáis the story told over a single night by Karen to her father on his deathbed. It raises themes of violence against women and men when war is affecting millions of people.Peaceful Circumstancesáis both an exciting thriller and a deeply moving love story between two Americans who are about to come of age.Praise foráThe Unmaking of an American:á&ldquo,Roger has fearlessly thrown himself into the whirlpool of cross-culturalism.ááHis life reads like an adventure story.&rdquo,&mdash,Ryuichi SakamotoPraise foráThe Dream of Lafcadio Hearn:á&ldquo,Roger Pulvers has spun a highly readable and enjoyable portrayal of an unconventional man who embraced Japan in a time of transition, and who struggled intellectually and emotionally to come to grips with sweeping change.&rdquo,&mdash,The Japan TimesPraise foráLiv:á&ldquo,A gripping mystery, of a present haunted by the past, but also a profoundly moral book, asking of the reader: what would you do? In this,áLivádeserves comparison with novels as great asáAn Artist of the Floating Worldáby Kazuo Ishiguro andáThe Readeráby Bernhard Schlink.&rdquo, &mdash,David Peace, author ofáTokyo Year Zero