The book tells a story about racism expressed by a murder trial in which the accused Japanese man is - of course- innocent. The unfair trial is burdened with prejudices of Americans who all served in WWII and just want one of their old enemies to suffer. While the story gets more interesting, the trial becomes more obscure by the complicated relationships between some of the involved. I have to confess, that I was bored by the fact that the reader knows right from the start that the accused cannot be the murderer because otherwise people's prejudices would be backed up. I think that the emotions of war-time, racism but also romance and love are very well described, but some of the countryside descriptions going on for pages can bore you to death! To make it short: interesting, ambitious plot and constellation of the involved groups and opinions, but a boring and time-consuming way to tell you what's going on. All in all: OK !