Have just finished reading One Morning Like a Bird by Andrew Miller.
It is a very absorbing novel about a dilettante would-be poet in pre-war Japan and the increasing responses he is obliged to make to the claims made by an increasingly totalitarian society.
"Then less comfortably comes the thought that he might, if he is not careful, end up as nothing, a being with no convincing identity at all, a stranger among strangers..."
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