THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE
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THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 52 min
Hamamatsu, 1906 to 1959. A blacksmith's son with no schooling past the village grades opens a car repair shop, then a factory to make piston rings, and for two years cannot make one that passes inspection.
THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 44 min
Tokyo, 1944 to 1961. An engineer of thirty-six and a naval lieutenant of twenty-three meet over a heat-seeking weapon that never works, and after the surrender set up a repair bench on the burned third floor of a department store in Nihonbashi.
THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE Book 3
4 parts · 13 h 32 min
Aichi and Shizuoka, 1665 to 1952. A sake house in a village near Nagoya has brewed under one name for fourteen generations, and in 1921 the fifteenth heir is born and given his instructions before he can read.
THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 5 min
Kangwon province and Ulsan, 1915 to 2001. A farmer's eldest son runs away from a mountain village four times before he is twenty, carries rice on a bicycle through colonial Seoul, and is handed the shop by the man he worked for.
THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE Book 5
4 parts · 15 h 28 min
Hangzhou, 1964 to 2014. An English teacher on a state salary of about a hundred yuan a month starts a translation agency, sees the internet for the first time in Seattle in 1995, and builds a web directory for factories that are not on the web.
THE RUBBLE AND THE LINE Book 6
4 parts · 12 h 24 min
Shizuoka and Tokyo, 1925 to 2020. A boy is told at seven that he has no home to come back to, works his way through the kitchens of a country at war and then under occupation, and at thirty-nine opens ten seats in the basement of a Ginza office building. He never opens an eleventh.