Ground Zero Nagasaki

An award-winning collection about the atomic bomb, told from the perspective of those who live in its shadow.

List of contents

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About the author

Seirai Yuichi is a novelist from Nagasaki. He is the author of Jeronimo no jujika ( Geronimo's Cross), which won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers. He also won the Akutagawa Prize for Seisui ( Holy Water) and the Ito Sei Literary Prize and the Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize for Bakushin (Ground Zero). Paul Warham is a translator who lives in Tokyo. His translations include Kenzo Kitakata's The Cage, Satoshi Azuchi's Supermarket, and Kazushi Hosaka's Plainsong.

Summary

An award-winning collection about the atomic bomb, told from the perspective of those who live in its shadow.

Product details

• Authors: Yauichi Seirai, Yuichi Seirai, Yuichi (c/o Japan Writers' Association) Seirai, Seirai Yuichi, Paul Warham
• Assisted by: Paul Warham (Translation), Warham Paul (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780231171168
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17116-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 218 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia; Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Christian / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history & criticism, Religious and spiritual fiction