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REVIEWING TODAY: 602 BRIGADE: IF HONDA BETRAYED JAPAN BY MISASHU MIYAMOTO
Ostensibly an alternative history book, 602 Brigade: If Honda Betrayed Japan by Musashi Miyamoto, which offers a fictional answer to the question: Could a manufacturing company such as Honda inadvertently betray Japan, and if so, would a consequence be war? is, in the most complimentary of terms, a gorgeously written, surrealistic piece of speculative fiction. The author brilliantly decides to offer up the action before further academic speculation, and immediately begins this minor masterpiece with China massively – and with strategic perfection – invading Japan. Within weeks, sixty million Japanese civilians are dead, as the United States bows out of any involvement whatsoever. Only a few survivors remain to form the 602 Brigade and begin the long march back from oblivion to restoration.
The plot of 602 Brigade by Musashi Miyamoto is engaging enough, but the writing is exquisitely superb and enthralling. One feels that he is on a hallucinogenic trip guided by a poetic but emotionally damaged mind. That any writer could convey with such artistically entrancing prose such horrendous moments of gory rawness is almost beyond comprehension. The reader is mostly stuck within the mind of Isamu Nakamura, a Japanese pilot who awakens sitting upon his own gravestone, where one shares completely his utter disorientation and confusion, who becomes the commander of 602 Brigade, accompanied by an initial cadre of fighters possessing characters and personalities as individually distinct and fascinating as each moment in this incredible, indelible book. Miyamoto writes with absolute precision and stark economy – his tale never falters – but also with a stylistic beauty that often stuns the senses. This novel is difficult to describe; impossible to forget.
Joel R. Dennstedt – Reviewer
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