In that case I go ahead and nominate
Subject: Autobiographical novel
Available formats: ebook / physical book
Reason(s) for nominating: So far I read volume #1 which played at the time of WW2, the author 角野栄子 was evacuated somewhere north of Tokyo. It ends with the end of the war and her finishing elementary school. イコ is the author’s pseudonym in these two books. No guessing here, she said so herself, but now I don’t remember where.
Volume #2 - this nomination - continues from there, she got optimistic again, goes to junior high and on up to university and afterwards starts traveling, which is if we can trust the title the main contents of this book. E.g. I know of her going to Brasil, before she returned to Japan which is where I suppose this book ends…and later she starts writing.
So we will get some first hand impressions about life in Japan and at least one other country at 1945 1948 onwards.
Btw: though the MC of the first book is just ten years old, the target group of these two books are not children, as e.g. the first book has old kanji and just minimal furigana.
