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The ash garden : a novel / Dennis Bock.

by Bock, Dennis. 1964-

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HarperFlamingoCanada ; A. Knopf, c2001.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Fiction.

9780002255240 (HarperFlamingoCanada hc.)

9780375413025 (A. Knopf hc)

0375413022 (A. Knopf hc)

281 p. ; 22 cm.

"A Phyllis Bruce book."--HarperFlamingo ed.

"A Borzoi book."--Knopf ed.

Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the start of an irreparable fissure in their new marriage. Fifty years later, seemingly far removed from the day that defined their lives, Emiko visits Anton and Sophie, and in Dennis Bock's powerfully imagined narrative, their histories converge.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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