Anatahan Kevin Simonson Selected as one of NPR's

Selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2016

“I was always falling in love with the wrong man

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And when another body turns up at the local cricket match

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Anatahan Kevin Simonson Selected as one of NPR'sIn 1944, after their vessel was scuttled by American air power, a dozen Japanese merchant seamen found themselves shipwrecked on the small Mariana isle of Anatahan with the sole population being a deserter (Tadashi Suganuma) and his beautiful common law wife (Akemi Nigishi). For the next seven years, the sailors would remain oblivious to WWII's end, and find their ordered discipline fatefully fraying over the woman's presence. Josef von Sternberg's