The New Spring

About the Book

The New Spring is the story of a Japanese soldier and the devastation -- as well as the social and moral upheaval -- he finds when he is repatriated from the Pacific after World War II. After a five-year absence he is almost a stranger to his shy wife and he is soon at odds with his oldest brother who flaunts his nisei sergeant friend and black-market cigarettes. He is outraged to find his brother’s widow shacked up with an American. Practically everything to which he has come home is alien to his values as he struggles to realign his life with postwar realities.

About the Author

Daniel Karasik is a former journalist who has had a varied career as a newspaperman, a CBS foreign correspondent, and an NBC broadcaster as well as writer, producer and sometimes director of award-winning television documentaries. Karasik grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, and has lived in New York as well as in Tokyo, where he was a Ford Foundation fellow, and in Vienna, where he was the CBS bureau chief and correspondent covering Eastern Europe and the Mid-east. At NBC News he also did a brief stint at the White House. He is the author of The New Spring.