Children of the Crane

As World War II ends, Kaede, beautiful daughter of Japanese immigrants, is about to graduate from the University of São Paulo, Brazil as the university’s first Asian valedictorian. As a leader in a movement to replace the country’s wartime autocracy with a popular democracy, Kaede is opposed by powerful political interests. Will she and the democratic movement survive? Further complicating Kaede’s life are three determined suitors: Roberto, fellow graduate and democratic party leader; Senor Salles, plantation owner who is part of the governing elite; and Masaru, childhood friend who, unbeknown to Kaede, heads a secret society of Japanese immigrants engaged in persecution of fellow immigrants considered disloyal to their ancestors. To whom shall Kaede go?