The Snow Kimono by Mark Henshaw

Author:Mark Henshaw [Henshaw, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical
ISBN: 9781472225689
Google: o76cBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1922182346
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Goodreads: 24485962
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

An hour or so after sunrise, we come around a bend in the road and there, sprawled below us, is Osaka. The city spills down the mountainside towards the bay which lies motionless in the early morning haze. Further south, along the coast, it is impossible to see where the city ends. It dissolves into the grey and indeterminate horizon beyond.

It took more than an hour to pull the bus free. In the rain. In the dark. The light from the lamps grown dim. With everyone shaken, silent, as if we were all already aware that each of us had been brought there for some obscure and terrible reason to witness what had unfolded. We all felt guilty. We could not look at each other. But we all understood one thing. We had escaped. Only Hiroshi had been made to pay. And his father.

When the bus was finally pulled clear, Hiroshi had bobbed to the surface like a cork. No one moved. At first. We all stared at his floating body, watching it turn slowly in the rain. Then his father, and one of the other men, waded into the pool to lift him free.

I can still see Mr Nakagawa kneeling at the rear of the bus, in the yellow mud, on his own, with his dead idiot son cradled in his lap, rocking him slowly back and forth, saying something over and over, which I cannot hear.

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