Fires on the Plain (novel)

Fires on the Plain
First UK edition
AuthorŌoka Shōhei
Original titleNobi
TranslatorIvan Morris
LanguageJapanese, English (translated)
GenreWar novel
PublisherSecker & Warburg (UK)
Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Publication date
1951
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
1957
Media typePrint
Pages246
AwardsYomiuri Prize
ISBN0-8048-1379-5
895.63
LC ClassPZ4.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.