My Life: Living, Loving, and Fighting (Volume 26)

by Sumii Sue

This book, My Life: Living, Loving, and Fighting, is an interview with Sumii Sue conducted by her daughter, Masuda Reiko, a reporter and editorialist for the Mainichi Shimbun and a well-known writer. Masuda succeeds in eliciting details of daily life and personal relationships that give us a wonderful picture of this courageous woman and her fighting temperament, her pride in her achievements, and her self-effacement. My Life is also a fascinating document of social history, describing the conditions of life in twentieth-century Japan as Sumii experienced it: the poverty of sharecroppers, the political movements of the 1920s, the Great Kanto Earthquake, and life on the home front during World War II. The interview was conducted in 1994, when Sumii was ninety-two years old and starting to work on volume eight of The River with No Bridge.

136 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

Reviews

[Tony · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an interview between mother and daughter. Man it was so good, and it was sad. Everyone born after 2000 has an easy life. You learn so much by reading this. My toes are curling. The short story “HATS”, that’s included in this book is so sad. Man why. WHY. It’s so good. Man. Damn. It’s so good. It’s hard to explain you just have to read it. But basically everything and everyone is fake and you’ll are more discriminating against everyone and everything and screw you. Rip sue sumii. I want to read your book but why you making it so hard to find. Actually I found it. Good book. Anakin would be proud. Actually he wouldn’t because the book talks about taking down the imperial system and
Ana-kins is building an empire.

[Seba Tyburski · Rating 4 out of 5]

初めて全文読んだ日本語の本。修士論文のテーマが住井すゑの作品に関連しているため、読んでみた。すごく楽しかった！彼女の本は、苦難や差別と闘っている人々の物語を伝えている。ポーランド語に翻訳されるべきだと思う。将来に、たぶん僕が翻訳されてみるだろう？