{"product_id":"imaginary-death-paperback","title":"Imaginary Death - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMariko Nagai\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA man dies. He dies because he must-because without his death, there is no story, and, in the end, no history itself.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins Mariko Nagai's\u003ci\u003e Imaginary Death, \u003c\/i\u003e a creative nonfiction book that examines how the author's grandfather, an ordinary man born in a small village in the early 20th century, is unmade and remade into a perfect Japanese Imperial Soldier by the era he was born into. In the kaleidoscope composed of archival documents, letters, journals, research, interviews, and photographs, \u003ci\u003e Imaginary Death\u003c\/i\u003e traces the life of a man who fought and died for the empire, whose death, obscured by lack of documentation, must be composited of many possible ways men could die in Papua New Guinea. Only forty out of four thousand men from the regimental unit survived by the end of the repatriation in 1946: his was one small death out of many.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of James Agee and Walker Evans's seminal work on the Great Depression \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous Men, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eImaginary Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a work that is part meditation, part history, and part fragments of memory that tell a story of a Japanese soldier's life and death during World War II. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eImaginary Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a textual landscape of imagination, fact, history, and dreams all intersecting to create a psychological terrain that is not limited in the same way as history or nonfiction books, but is rather a new imaginative cartography, no less real than history itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48383388614905,"sku":"9781685712365","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/e8RXH6zYmE9781685712365.webp?v=1778443243","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/imaginary-death-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}