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Sun Beyond the Clouds
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(A word of warning: Sun Beyond the Clouds punctuates the chapters with satirical "tongue-in-cheek" references - if you are easily confused, need to be spoon fed information or don't have a sense of humor, this book could be hazardous to your health, please avoid.)


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A deceptively serene and harmonic evening masks a chilling incident within the walls of a Japanese tea house, as presented in the prologue of Sun Beyond the Clouds.
We begin with Kira Nakamura trying to live what many would consider an average life in California. Much of her focus on... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A deceptively serene and harmonic evening masks a chilling incident within the walls of a Japanese tea house, as presented in the prologue of Sun Beyond the Clouds.
We begin with Kira Nakamura trying to live what many would consider an average life in California. Much of her focus on being somewhat "average" is simply her way of coping with her "less than average" childhood and life as a young adult. We're given a glimpse of her young childhood as she recalls her precious time spent with her mother in Japan. Kira keeps those times with her every moment of every day, but is tested quite often by her own inner dissidence and manages to quell most of the potentially dangerous repercussions with the mettle she's developed over the years. Just as she begins to accept a level of comfort with her ability to put the past behind her, Kira receives a letter from Japan. Kira must now decide whether or not to face her past. Her decision takes her on a journey of tribulation which reveals and explores the tenuous nature of human relationships... and if you like the exploration of the tenuous nature of human relationships, but you're tired of reading about it in slow, slow nine hundred page novels, this gives it to you in several hundred less pages with action, humor and symbolism.

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  • “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
  • “We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.”

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Under a glowing, full Kyoto moon, a Japanese tea house rested on an island at the edge of a small lake as a million crickets chirped around the mirrored surface of the water.

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  • Moirai: A person's fate or destiny

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  • Trust and Honesty: Sun Beyond the Clouds contains many layers of symbolism and interconnected themes dealing with trust, honesty, integrity and caring which can only be understood by actually reading the book and thinking about why a particular character, scene or item is used as it is. Japanese names have meanings - all Japanese characters in Sun Beyond the Clouds are named the way they are for a symbolic reason based on the meaning of the name. A reader will not be able to see or understand these, at times subtle references and inferences if he or she just skims the book in order to add it to a list of books read. Martial arts is a theme used, but it is used to symbolize certain character traits and used in way that supports the themes mentioned above. Again, skimming the book would prevent the reader from grasping the real meaning behind the use of martial arts here and would only come away with a shallow interpretation that it is just a martial arts flick.

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Reading Level: Adults

Contains violence, minor strong language. Sun Beyond the Clouds contains many layers of symbolism and interconnected themes dealing with trust, honesty, integrity and caring which can only be understood by actually reading the book and thinking about why a particular character, scene or item is used as it is. A reader will not be able to see or understand these, at times subtle references and inferences if he or she just skims the book in order to add it to a list of books read. Martial arts is a theme used, but it is used to symbolize certain character traits and used in way that supports the themes mentioned above. Again, skimming the book would prevent the reader from grasping the real meaning behind the use of martial arts here and would only come away with a shallow interpretation that it is just a martial arts flick.

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