How Do You Live?

Yoshino, Genzaburō 1967-

How Do You Live? - New York Algonquin Young Readers 2021 - 280 pages ; 22 cm

Originally published in Japanese: Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1937. In this classic Japanese coming-of-age novel often compared to The Alchemist and The Little Prince, a young man sets out to find his place in a world both infinitely large and unimaginably small. Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.

Ages 9-12.
Grades 6+ / Young Adult





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Conduct of life--Fiction.
Japan--Fiction--1926-1945--History
Uncles--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.

Coming of Age


LF (Friendship, family, relationships)
HF (Historical Fiction)

PZ7.1.Y7 / How 2021