Fires on the Plain (novel)

Fires on the Plain

Author	Ōoka Shōhei
Original title	Nobi
Translator	Ivan Morris
Language	Japanese, English (translated)
Genre	War novel
Publisher	Secker & Warburg (UK) Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Publication date	1951
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	1957
Media type	Print
Pages	246
Awards	Yomiuri Prize
ISBN	0-8048-1379-5
Dewey Decimal	895.63
LC Class	PZ4.O575 Fi2

Fires on the Plain (Japanese: 野火 Nobi) is a Yomiuri Prize-winning novel by Ooka Shohei, published in 1951. It describes the experiences of a soldier of the routed Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines, as part of the Battle of Leyte and the Battle of Ormoc Bay, at the end of 1944, towards the final months of World War II.