New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2013. Clouds above the Hill is the best-selling novel ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. Anyone curious as to how the "tiny, rising nation of Japan" was able to fight so fiercely for its survival should look no further. Clouds above the Hill is an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing nation that goes to war and thereby stakes its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.