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| Night Autopsy Room: Seven Tales of Life, Death, and Hope |  | Author: Yoshio, M.d. Sakabe
Creator: Brook Neal
Publisher: Cross Cultural Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy Used: $2.83
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3755115
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 390
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0940121204
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.635
EAN: 9780940121201
ASIN: 0940121204
Publication Date: January 1995
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Condition: Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy!
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Oppressive religious propaganda set in postwar Japan July 22, 2008
Night Autopsy Room tells a story of Yoshio, a medical student living in Japan just after the World War II. In the autopsy room of the medical college, he meets seven spirits, who want to tell the stories of their lives to him.
The spirits have lived hard lifes, and their stories are stories of hardship and oppression. The first spirit is a woman who was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb fell, the second is a Korean man who faced discrimination in Japan, the third a Japanese woman driven to suicide by discrimination in America and so on.
I made it through the first two stories, then I had to quit - it was too depressing. Not the stories, though, even though they told awful tales of hard life. No, what bugged me was the way the author used the suffering of the people he created to promote religion. If there's something I really hate, it's telling people that suffering in this life is good, because it gives you a better place in Heaven after you die - that's the basic idea of the second story.
I simply can't tolerate that kind of rubbish. The spirits were a rather too excited about Jesus, too, the author seems very certain of his faith. Too bad I don't share it. The stories itself were ok, though the prose was somewhat wooden. Whether that is the author's or the translator's fault, I can't tell, but the way the stories were told was, to be frank, boring: surely these horrid fates could've been told more vividly.
Night Autopsy Room March 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good book. It is the story of a Japanese medical student, who, just after World War II, meets and talks with 7 different spirits, who have died in different ways. I loved learning more of the Japanese culture, and sad to learn how terrible World War II was on the Japanese. There are, however, some short comings to the book. This book was translated from Japanese to English, and there are some places where the interpretation was off, and/or several clerical errors were noted.
The book does become *wordy* at times, and three of the stories, of the seven, tend to tell close to the same thing in their stories. I do recommend the reading of the book. It was enjoyable to read, and learning more of the culture was rewarding. - Debi Hoggan, Utah
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