Mushroom Cloud: Translated by Tomone Matsumoto

ISBN-13: 9780820463797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 165 str.

Matsumoto, Tomone

Opis

This translation of Saki Ryuzo s Kinokogumo examines the experience of a young boy, Kosaka Ryo, from age four to thirteen, in a suburb of Hiroshima in prewar Japan. Ryo s life in the village encompasses several central events: the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan s surrender, and the death of Ryo s father in the Philippines. Widowed at age thirty-five with four children, Ryo s mother struggled to survive by selling rice on the black market and ultimately left for Yahata in Kyushu, searching for a better life. With its unique perspective on Japan and the living conditions there during and after the Pacific War, Mushroom Cloud will appeal to history and literature students."

O autorze

The Author: Saki Ryuzo was born in 1937 in Pyonghand, now North Korea. Originally a reporter, he wrote more than one hundred books and received prizes and awards for his work.
The Translator: Tomone Matsumoto received her Ph.D. in Asian studies from the University of Arizona and has taught Japanese language and literature in Australia, the United States, and Japan. She is co-editor of The Showa Anthology (1986) and a translator of The Name of the Flower: 13 Short Stories of Mukoda Kuniko (1994).