AustLit

This novel, again comically narrated, also adopts a war-related topic, this time the feud between an Australian and a Japanese,starting from the time of the occupation of Japan. using a form of slapstick comedy, the author allows his Japanese protagonist Hirose to reflect on the war and its aftermath. Hirose was an interpreter, a go-between for those in control and their subordinates both during and after the war-for Japan in the prisoner-of-war camp, and for the Allied Forces during the occupation of Japan and the Korean War.' Megumi Kato, 'Representations of Japan and Japanese People in Australian literature' PHD, (2005): 270.