TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seirai,Yuichi
AU  - Warham,Paul
TI  - Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Stories 
SN  - 9780231171168
AV  - PL861.E345 B3513 2015
U1  - 895.63/6 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Atomic bomb victims
KW  - Japan
KW  - Nagasaki-ken
KW  - Fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Nails --; Stone --; Insects --; Honey --; Shells --; Birds; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling portrait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they experienced the destruction of the city directly or heard about it from survivors, the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in the West. Many of them are descended from the "hidden Christians" who continued to practice their religion in secret during the centuries when it was outlawed in Japan. Urakami Cathedral, the center of Japanese Christian life, stood at ground zero when the bomb fell.In "Birds," a man in his sixties reflects on his life as a husband and father. Just a baby when he was found crying in the rubble near ground zero, he does not know who his parents were. His birthday is set as the day the bomb was dropped. In other stories, a woman is haunted by her brief affair with a married man, and the parents of a schizophrenic man struggle to come to terms with the murder their son committed. These characters battle with guilt, shame, loss, love, and the limits of human understanding. Ground Zero, Nagasaki vividly depicts a city and people still scarred by the memory of August 9, 1945
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/seir17116
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231538565
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231538565/original
ER  -