Struggle Of The Young Inheritors

Winner of the PEN/Open Book Award Winner of The Story Prize Spotlight Award A kaleidoscopic portrait of five generations scattered across Asia and the United States, Inheritors is a heartbreakingly beautiful and brutal exploration of a Japanese family fragmented by the Pacific side of World War II. A retired doctor is forced to confront the moral consequences of his wartime actions. His brother’s wife, compelled to speak of a fifty-year-old murder, reveals the shattering realities of life in Occupied Japan. Half a century later, her estranged American granddaughter winds her way back East, pursuing her absent father’s secrets. Decades into the future, two siblings face the consequences of their great-grandparents’ war as the world shimmers on the brink of an even more pervasive violence. Grappling with the legacies of loss, imperialism, and war, Inheritors offers an intricate tapestry of stories illuminating the complex ways in which we live, interpret, and pass on our tangled histories.

A microbiologist fights to counter a pandemic of huge proportions supposedly created by a bug returned from a space shuttle. But was it? Ben steals the bug viruses from his work lab, not trusting the World Health Organization, which he believes is the creator of the bug. The WHO tries to close Ben down when he comes up with the anti-virus. On the run with two young friends, Ben races to save humanity in a world where simply meeting a man, woman or child could cause their death. His small band sets out into the wilds of England to counter the WHO's plans for mankind. The Struggle of the Young Inheritors: Book 1 in the Bug Series presents the thrilling survival mission of a few souls trying to overcome in a world gone mad. As the bugs exterminate more and more humans, the battle is on to determine the victor. This novel shows that youth can survive without their elders - or even despite their elders - can learn quickly to adapt, and can make a difference, no matter the odds.

War sweeps across Europe. Jews are collected and sent to concentration camps. In 1940 Poland, a gypsy boy named Zack just had his family’s caravan bombed, killing his last living relative, his father. Two Jewish boys befriend Zack, so he tells them where they should jump their train before it reaches the concentration camp. They do what they must to survive. There is hope; there can be living with a smile. I sat here as frustration and anger ran rampant within me. I ask myself what of these chaotic, lived moments that can eat away at me, belittling my life, my drive, destroying the bright dreams and care that used to shine within me. Where bright golden smiles were once with me each and every moment of my loving day, where I caressed life with passion and love, with warm feelings of happiness permeating through my body, nurturing the soul that I am… My comfort now is anger, hate and resentment of the moments that made life worthwhile, for to be without these precious living moments and feelings are like dying and seeing no tomorrows. I push these things aside, grabbing at a straw of hope that I may once again feel comfortable within myself.

The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods, the getting of an heir was a complex, even paradoxical undertaking. Although adoption involving persons of the same surname was the only arrangement ritually and legally sanctioned in Chinese society, adoption of persons of a different surname was a relatively common practice. Using medical and ritual texts, legal codes, local gazetteers, biography, and fiction, Waltner examines the multiple dimensions of the practice of adoption and identifies not only the dominant ideology prohibiting adoption across surname lines, but also a parallel discourse justifying the practice.

A microbiologist fights to counter a pandemic of huge proportions supposedly created by a bug returned from a space shuttle. But was it? Ben steals the bug viruses from his work lab, not trusting the World Health Organization, which he believes is the creator of the bug. The WHO tries to close Ben down when he comes up with the anti-virus. On the run with two young friends, Ben races to save humanity in a world where simply meeting a man, woman or child could cause their death. His small band sets out into the wilds of England to counter the WHO's plans for mankind. The Struggle of the Young Inh.

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