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The Question and Answer section for The Sound of Waves is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Nature's power is on full display in this novel. She is constantly revealing herself in the crashing of the waves, the pouring rain, the heaving seas, the tumultuous skies. The storms often take place at moments of heightened action or emotion in...
I don't recall this being given. Shinji's father died in World War II. I would guess fisherman but I am not sure.
Shinji well knew how sharp the villagers' tongues could be. Hatsue promised not to tell. Thus their well-founded fear of the village's love of gossip changed what was but an innocent meeting into a thing of secrecy between the two of them. (pg....
