Ground Zero

Yūichi Seirai · 2006 CE · Short Story · Japanese · Contemporary

Stories set in the Catholic community near the Nagasaki hypocentre follow people living with the bomb decades after it fell. Their faith and their anger meet in questions about who was responsible. The book won the Tanizaki Prize and appeared in English as Ground Zero, Nagasaki.

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