Mountain of Fire: Women under Mount Fuji (2 Volumes in Total)
by Y
About This Novel
Patrice Yuhei, a Japanese-French child born in Paris, accidentally discovered a memoir about family stories written by his grandfather Yutaro Arimori, a physicist who immigrated to the United States after World War II. Patrice decided to learn Japanese with a friend to decipher it, and translated the contents of the memoir into French for her elderly mother Makiko. This mysterious memoir written in Japanese tells the story of the five generations of the Arimori family living at the foot of Mount Fuji, the "Mountain of Fire", from before the Meiji Restoration to Japan's defeat in the Pacific War, until the ups and downs of the 21st century. The novel is centered on this memoir, interspersed with the stories of Yutaro's five sisters, the writings of Yutaro's father, Genichiro Arimori, a geologist who has long studied Mount Fuji, and the phone calls and letters exchanged between Patrice and his friends, showing the lamentable fate of a large family for several generations.
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