A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.' InStyleAmaterasu 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Copleton, Copleton Jackie
• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780099592471
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959247-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: WINDMILL BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary