This is the story of two Japanese soldiers who
survived sixteen years in the jungles of Gurun believing that World War
II was still on. It is written by one of them, with a certain
hollow-eyed naivete, which is not intended to demean Ito Masashi but
simply to indicate the book's essential simplicity. Basically this is a
story of learning to live in the jungle where he was dominated by fear
of being captured by the aborigines or the Americans and driven by the
need for food. The years pass; he risks a trip to the coast for seawater
from which to extract salt and preserve meat. Animosity develops: one
man goes off for a year; they refuse to consider that the war might be
over; one man dies.... Genuine, no doubt, but marginal.
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