The ash garden: a novel
Canadian fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, War stories
Human-narrated audio
Summary
One of 25 Hiroshima Maidens relocated from post-war Japan to America for corrective plastic surgery, Emiko remains in the U.S. as a student, then as a filmmaker. Anton is a German scientist who worked on the atomic bomb at Los… Alamos, and who married a part-Jewish survivor and refugee. When they meet during the filming of Emiko's documentary, the reverberations caused by the explosion of the bomb are explored, and the true implications of their involvement in that moment are revealed. 2001.