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The cake tree in the ruins / Akiyuki Nosaka ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: London : Pushkin Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2015Description: 157 pages ; 17 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1782274189
  • 9781782274186
Uniform titles: Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 895.6 NOS 23
LOC classification:
  • PL857.O8 A2 2018
Contents:
The whale that fell in love with a submarine -- The Parrot and the boy -- The mother that turned into a kite -- The old she-wolf and the little girl -- The the red dragonfly and the cockroach -- The prisoner of war and the little girl -- The cake tree in the ruins -- The elephnt and its keeper -- A soldier's family -- My home bunker -- A balloon in August -- The soldier and the horse.
Summary: "'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War.They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment."-- Provided by publisher.
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"The first seven stories in this volume were first published by Pushkin Press in 2015 as The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine"--Title page verso.

The whale that fell in love with a submarine -- The Parrot and the boy -- The mother that turned into a kite -- The old she-wolf and the little girl -- The the red dragonfly and the cockroach -- The prisoner of war and the little girl -- The cake tree in the ruins -- The elephnt and its keeper -- A soldier's family -- My home bunker -- A balloon in August -- The soldier and the horse.

"'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War.They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment."-- Provided by publisher.

Translated from the Japanese.

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