Twenty-four Eyes

This book is a novel by Japanese writer Sakae Tsuboi (1899-1967). It tells the story of a female primary school teacher named Oshijiko in a small fishing village on the promontory, who devoted herself to teaching a class of innocent children. As a result of the war, twelve children suffered misfortune. Oshijiko doubted education and wanted to resign from teaching, but eventually returned to the ch...