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"Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world."-Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police (on Touring the Land of the Dead) A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young Russian-Japanese man. Inspired by Marguerite Duras's screenplay for “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” this novel is an undeniable demonstration of Kashimada's distinctive voice, the poli...Vis mer