9.(0-1) Slim Novel 9 Cover, Synopsis/Intro and Chapter 1

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Slim Novel 9
The Ainu are Caucasoid descendants of the original inhabitants of the islands that make up today's Japan. They are only found on the northernmost Island, Hokkaido

Kimi Heads North

Slim Novel #9

Other Slim Novels

#1 Kimi // #2 Ali & Kimura – World’s Fair 1939

#3 Educating Kimi // #4 Olga & Boris – Honeymoon in Siberi // #5 New Decade – Tokyo 1941 // #6 Midway //

#7 Tokyo at War – 1942/43 // #8 Guadalcanal // #10 Losing War – Tojo Resigns // #11 New Future // #12 On the Ground Running // #13 Back in the Bronx // #14 Eddie in Occupied Japan // #15 Eddie in Medical School // #16 Eddie Around the World // #17, The Wisdom of a Very Old Man

The Slim Novels to this Point

Kimi is a fisherman’s daughter from Japan’s North Island who serves as comfort woman for Japan’s Imperial Army in Manchuria in the mid 1930's and gets to Tokyo as top tart in Club Balalaika where the Eurasian, Olga, who becomes Kimi’s friend, sings American jazz nightly.

   In Tokyo, Kimi meets the communist young woman Harumi and, by Slim Novel 5, the three friends, Kimi, Olga and Harumi share the Little Blue House.

   Another acquaintance is Kimura, top foreign correspondent, and through his letters, Kimi learns of Japan’s defeats at the Battles of Midway (Slim Novel 6) and in Guadalcanal (Slim Novel 8). As Slim Novel 9 opens Kimi has just finished reading Kimura’s Guadalcanal Diary.

1.  Great Weariness

Kimi glances at clock on wall; then at her housemates, who are asleep on the floor rug beside each other. A breeze from the open window ruffles the front page of a newspaper on the table bringing “GUADALCANAL” to her attention. She reads: Radio Tokyo announces Imperial forces are successfully completing mission on Guadalcanal and moving on to fight elsewhere. She feels a great weariness and, stretching out on sofa, sleeps.
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