Dirty Hearts

Fernando Morais (b. 1946) is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and politician. He is the author of nine books, which include his biographies of Communist operative Olga Benário Prestes, media mogul Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian Air Force Marshal Casimiro Montenegro Filho, and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. His own works have sold over two million copies in nineteen countries, and four of his books have been made into films. He received the Prêmio Esso three times and Prêmio Abril four times for his journalistic work. Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts, 2000) was awarded the Jabuti Award, the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, in the category of Best Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2001. Seth Jacobowitz is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard Asia Center, 2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. He is also the translator of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (Kurodahan Press, 2008).

• 1. Seven Japanese Want to Decapitate a Corporal from the Public Forces: World War II is About to Begin Again.- 2. Subjects of the Axis Powers Cannot Have Radios, Cars, or Money. They Are Not Even Allowed to Speak.- 3. A Little Old Man Terrorizes The Japanese Colony: It Is None Other Than The Wise Colonel Kikawa.- 4. Mizobe Appears to be Swimming in the Air: The First Makegumi Falls Dead.- 5. The Police Discover the Fumie, The Torture That Only Harms a Prisoner’s Soul.- 6. Japanese Are Hunted and Dragged Through the Streets of the City: The “Day of Reckoning” Has Arrived.- 7. Eiiti Sakane, The Solitary Rōnin, Prepares a Blood Bath in Tupã.- 8. Prestes, Capanema, and Gilberto Freyre Take the Stand: The “Yellow Mafia” Splits the Constituent Assembly in Two.- 9. A Tokkōtai Will Be Tortured and Killed: The End of Shindō Renmei.- 10. The Final Balance: 31,000 Imprisoned, 381 Formally Charged, and 80 Expelled from Brazil, but President Kubitschek Pardons Them All.