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The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine by Akiyuki Nosaka (Paperback, 2015)

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Author:Akiyuki Nosaka. Akiyuki Nosaka 's adoptive parents were killed in the Allied firebombing of Kobe, Japan in 1945, and at age fourteen he fled with his younger sister to an evacuation camp, where she starved to death.

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A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her. A mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body's water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite. But bunkers can also become real homes, a small Japanese girl and an American POW briefly understand each other and a miraculous tree feeds starving children. This is war, no doubt, but told by someone who understands how children truly experience war and its aftermath - the bombings and parents' deaths, the life of orphans who roam the streets, the starvation and blind violence in a society beyond destruction.