Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni

(Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms)

Type

manga

Status

finished

Chapters

3

Volumes

1

Started

2004-01-01

Description:

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever... A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age. Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing. The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kouno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!

Alternative Titles:

夕凪の街 桜の国, Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni, Yunagi City, Sakura Country, Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, The Town of Evening Calm, The Country of Cherry Blossoms

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