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Informationen zum Autor Jackie Copleton lived in Nagasaki and Sapporo where she taught English before returning to England and becoming a journalist. A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding is her first novel! and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club. Klappentext A novel of regret! forgiveness and the exquisite pain of love! set against the dramatic backdrop of Nagasaki before and after the bomb. Ideal for bookclubs! and readers of "Memoirs Of A Geisha". Zusammenfassung LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher ! in the best way.' InStyle Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo! who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living in America! she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter. When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep! she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt and humiliation of her early life! the intoxication of a first romance and the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way! she might still be alive today.
