Fires on the Plain – print final

Fires on the Plain is an autobiographical novel by Shohei Ooka dealing with the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Set on Leyte island in the Phillipines during the end of world war II, the Imperial Japanese Army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings. Private Tamura, the main character a sensitive and intelligent man slowly loses his hope, sanity and himself as he wanders the war zone in an ancient tropical jungle starving and hallucinating. Heres a small part of the project