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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.]]> 2001 2 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 03 06:18:09 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 06:19:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 65321396 2426602 2043089 0002255243 9780002255240 1 <![CDATA[The Ash Garden]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2043089.The_Ash_Garden 0.0 0 The Ash Garden personalizes the epic bombing of Hiroshima through Anton Böll, a German émigré physicist, and Emiko, a Japanese victim of the bomb. Bombmaker and bombed, they balance this incisive, symmetrical novel and its sustained inquiry into remorse and forgiveness.

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. The novel is at its best with her, from the heavy losses that surround her recovery in Japan to the awkwardness of immigrating to the nation that is both her tormentor and her savior. Meanwhile, Anton, her opposite number, doesn't just return home from war, he returns having irrevocably changed war. Stubbornly proud of his work and estranged from his isolated, ailing wife, Anton offers no home to remorse, and his conflicted legacy takes a lifetime to heal. Heal it does, though, just as Anton and Emiko meet and begin to discuss their roles in the bombing. The climax may be too much for readers impatient with a Dickensian full-cast ending: like those of John Irving, Bock's symmetries are delightful to discover at the halfway point but disappointingly conspicuous by the novel's close. --Darryl Whetter

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A German scientist, an Austrian teenager, a Japanese girl of six - all connected by the bombing of Hiroshima. Anton escapes Germany and comes to America to work on the Manhattan Project. ...more...]]> 59457959 2270915 311883 0375727493 9780375727498 10 <![CDATA[The Ash Garden]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173653178m/311883.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173653178s/311883.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311883.The_Ash_Garden 3.08 74
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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.]]> 2001 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 21:43:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 23:27:01 -0700 2009 73818658 2817727 311883 0375727493 9780375727498 10 <![CDATA[The Ash Garden]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173653178m/311883.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173653178s/311883.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311883.The_Ash_Garden 3.08 74
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