Wildcat Dome

Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they''ve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it''s all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.

Yuko Tsushima''s sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the truth--a tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.

''Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.'' Japan Times<>

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A brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan... despite the grave subject matter, the novel's tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda's expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author's abundant optimism for human adaptability TLS

Product details

• Authors: Yuko Tsushima, Tsushima Yuko
• Assisted by: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9780241649466
• ISBN: 978-0-241-64946-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Japan, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, FICTION / Disaster, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Nuclear issues, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction