Suiyobi No Gaika (Shincho Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Wednesday, August 15, 1945. The day the war ended was the day the women's war began, the day everything in the world was turned upside down. Fourteen-year-old Suzuko and her mother, who has been assigned to work as an interpreter at a special comfort facility for Occupation Forces, travel from place to place. The women sell their springtime labor in agony. Her mother is determined to live her life again as a woman. The friends she reunites with in a changed state. This moving full-length novel depicts another postwar era as seen through the eyes of an impressionable young girl.

昭和20年8月15日水曜日。戦争が終わったその日は、女たちの戦いが幕を開けた日。世界のすべてが反転してしまった日―。14歳の鈴子は、進駐軍相手の特殊慰安施設で通訳として働くことになった母とともに各地を転々とする。苦しみながら春を売る女たち。したたかに女の生を生き直す母。変わり果てた姿で再会するお友だち。多感な少女が見つめる、もうひとつの戦後を描いた感動の長編小説。