The Teahouse of the August Moon (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Black, Wallace B., and Jean F. Blashfield, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

  This is a recounting of the World War II battles between the United States and Japan on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. It is written at the youth level.

• Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Random House, 1999.

  This is a history of Japan from 1926 to the end of World War II in 1945.

• Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

  This widely popular contemporary fiction received much praise from critics and the general public. Golden’s novel is a memoir-like tale of the life of a Japanese geisha.

• Molasky, Michael S., The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory, Routledge, 1999.

  Molasky’s book is a history of the Allied Occupation of Okinawa from 1945-1952.