HIROSHIMA
To All the Corners of the World
2015-04-18
This successor of the long selling Heisei classic “Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms†is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves from Hiroshima City to Kure, where she encounters uncertainty in her new family, her new city, and her new world. However, she manages to live each day healthily and happily.
Yunagi No Machi Sakura No Kuni
2011-01-14
Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after her city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever. The war, the atomic bomb... what did they mean to ordinary people? Fumiyo Kôno examines these questions in her most powerful book yet an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!