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| | Muddy River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Kiichi's mother, after the death of her husband, was forced to support herself and her two children as a river prostitute moving from place to place on the river. |
 | | While Muddy River is about impoverished postwar Japan and the continuing impact of the war on families and children, it is also a sensitively told universal story of childhood and maturation through the loss of innocence. |
 | | The friendship between the two boys is, at first, pure, untainted by the memories of the war, unaffected by the presence of poverty, social prejudice, and death touching their lives. |
| www.aems.uiuc.edu /html/ChalkGuides/Muddy_River.html (813 words) |
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