Enlightenment Tag

The next is from Augusto Higa Oshiro's The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu. Oshiro is a Peruvian author. Born to immigrants from Okinawa and raised in Lima’s working-class center, he was a member of Peru’s Grupo Narración, a gaggle of writers focused on realist, working-class fiction within the Nineteen Seventies. Standing on a pebbled path within the Parque de la Exposición one August evening, Katzuo Nakamatsu looked on on the sakuras blossoms. The branches of the small trees,...