Emperor of Any Place

The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a story within a story. When Evan’s father dies suddenly, Evan finds a hand-bound book on his desk—a book his dad had been reading when he died. The book is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on an island in WWII. Why was his father reading it? What is in this account that Evan’s grandfather fears so much that he will do anything to prevent its being seen?