Cranes at dusk - Hisako Matsubara

Saya is ten. Already, amid these bewildering times,her loyalties are torn-between her mother, obsessed by formalities, and her Shinto father's patient search for truth. To her sensitive and inexperienced mind,everything around her-not only the conquerors but the lives and traditional values of their subjects-is at once questionable and enthralling.Soon, too, her own life will bring great trouble, in contrast to the fairytale of the cranes, who fly in the light of setting sun to a land of misery or pain.