{"id":3910,"date":"2016-02-10T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2016-03-04T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T01:54:22","slug":"the-wild-horses-of-hiroshima-by-paul-xylinides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3910","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Horses of Hiroshima by Paul Xylinides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The wild horses in The Wild Horses Of Hiroshima<\/em><\/a> (240 pages) are certainly intriguing, as with the title and cover art, and play a strong role at the story\u2019s end by appearing in the streets of Hiroshima to wander about as a healing force, cared for by the citizens. They \u00a0derive from the imagination of a novelist who is also a character in the novel,\u00a0who is also creating a narrative. The horses seem to emphasize purity and nobility, pounding through the city in herds, a shield against nuclear war and against the violent nature of the human species itself.<\/p>\n

This novel inside the novel begins approximately half way into the story, following a background beginning with the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima and its hideous devastation. A young American man has been a penpal with a young Japanese girl, and after the war, he goes to Hiroshima to find her. They marry and move to New Hampshire, bearing a son, Yukio. Yukio becomes a strong, husky young man who survives the attack of a bear which kills his father. He and his mother, Miyeko, return to Japan where he becomes a sumo wrestler. Time passes and he retires to write novels. The novel within a novel begins, with occasional returns to the exterior story of Yukio and his mother, plus Yukio\u2019s geisha, Satoko.<\/p>\n

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