Return to the Most Beautiful Village in the World by Yutaka Kobayashi

Mirado has been traveling with the circus and playing his flute.  He enjoys the travel and playing the flute but he's getting homesick.

Museyon and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published on November 1st.

He tells the circus master he wishes to go home and he lets him.  It takes a lot of walking to get there.  He meets a family that lets him sit around the fire and feeds him.  The father even gives him his flute, which is a good thing because his own father's flute he was using broke. 

He continues on his journey back to his home.  When he finally gets there, the village has been destroyed and no one lives there anymore.  

He heads for the next town.  Will he find his friends and family?  Read it and see.