Becoming a True Person (part 1 of 1)

About the productJapanese

This moving masterpiece depicts the growth of a Bunun boy named Harmut, and is based on the motif of the Samjhashan Incident of September 1945, in which Japanese people were also killed.
This highly anticipated work, which took 17 years to write and won literary awards in Taiwan and the Chinese-speaking world, has finally arrived in Japan.

The first volume depicts the events leading up to the "Mitsumayama Incident" occurring in the chaotic circumstances surrounding the end of the war.
Two boys, Harmut and Hainunan, from the indigenous Bunun tribe of Taiwan, have loved baseball since they were children and join the baseball team led by Sauma, an Amis coach.
In the spring of 1941, the two of them left the Wulu village and entered Hualien Port Middle School, where they practiced hard every day with the goal of competing in the Koshien tournament. However, the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, and they had no time for baseball.
Harmut goes to school while working at a restaurant run by a Japanese person, and through his interactions with Japanese, Han Chinese, and other indigenous students at school and at work, he becomes more conscious of his identity as a Bunun person and begins to feel more than just friendship for the Hainunan... (Quoted from Hakusuisha's website)

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Product Information

Publisher Hakusuisha

release date August 4, 2023

Part numberKLIT10056A-9784560090862

Specification 4-6 size/265 pages

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