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The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
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The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War Mass market paperbound - 2002

by Louise Steinman

In 1945, an American G.I. mailed home a Japanese flag. Fifty years later, his daughter unfolded the past. Growing up, Louise Steinman knew little about her father's experiences in World War II. All she knew was that the whistling teakettle was banned from the kitchen and that she was never to cry in front of him. Years later, after her parents' death, she found an old ammunition box, filled with nearly five hundred letters her father had written to her mother during the War. She also found a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu. Who was Yoshio Shimizu and why did her father have his flag? So began Steinman's quest to return this "souvenir" to its owner, and in the process, to learn more about the war that transformed the expressive young man in those letters into the reserved father she had known.

Weaving together her father's raw, poignant letters with her own journey, Steinman presents a powerful view of how war changed one generation and shaped another.


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In 1945, an American G.I. mailed home a Japanese flag. Fifty years later, his daughter unfolded the past. Growing up, Louise Steinman knew little about her father's experiences in World War II. All she knew was that the whistling teakettle was banned from the kitchen and that she was never to cry in front of him. Years later, after her parents' death, she found an old ammunition box, filled with nearly five hundred letters her father had written to her mother during the War. She also found a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu. Who was Yoshio Shimizu and why did her father have his flag? So began Steinman's quest to return this "souvenir" to its owner, and in the process, to learn more about the war that transformed the expressive young man in those letters into the reserved father she had known.
Weaving together her father's raw, poignant letters with her own journey, Steinman presents a powerful view of how war changed one generation and shaped another.

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"YOU'RE NOT LISTENING," my father used to say when I tried to slip an opinion in edgewise.

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  • Title The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
  • Author Louise Steinman
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date September 24, 2002
  • ISBN 9780452283657 / 0452283655
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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New York, NY, U.S.A. : Dutton/Plume, 2002., 2002. Soft cover. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, VG. With a new afterword by the author. An understated memoir, that draws its strength from the complexities it explores. Cover is an "airmail" envelope with picture of her father. Years after WW II Louise found an old ammunition box filled with almost 500 letters her father wrote to her mothering during the war. She found a silk Japanese flag inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu (a souvenir from the war). 259 pp. Small stain on corner outside pages at back of book.
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