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    <body><![CDATA[Stories about members one family from Hiroshima between years 1955 and 2004 with flashbacks to year 1945. Very sad and moving. I wept by reading constantly. I was very smashed by the first one, young poor girl Minami (she lives with her mother in terrible hut, because her house was burned in the war...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68426210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by someone who grew up in Hiroshima but long avoided thinking too deeply about the dropping of the atomic bomb and the effect it had on the survivors, this graphic novel was very thought-provoking.  On a story level, I enjoyed the ties between the three stories within this volume, some subtl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80687208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was apprehensive to read this graphic novel because I have never read a Manga before. Surprisingly, I understood most of it. It was a little confusing, but I feel it was because I am unfamiliar with these types of books. It was difficult getting used to reading this book from back to front, but th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45503225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is a manga (comic book) that deals with the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.  Unlike Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, which deals with the immediate trauma and aftermath of the dropping of the bomb, Fumiyo Kouno's manga investiga...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9749759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recreates beautifully the feel of Hiroshima after the war, a really touching story. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This volume is a standalone book holding two stories centering around the bombing of hiroshima.<br/><br/>It doesn't try and indoctrinate you to any particular viewpoint on the bombing, rather it is a gentle and poignant collection of glimpses into the lives of some of 'real' people who were affected...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27849967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about the people in Hiroshima now, and how the bomb continues to affect families and townspeople.  The stories are told via a different young woman's perspective, and the images are really stunning and sometimes so simple.  There are panels that are just still and haunting.  The book is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13698951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is a beautiful example of how manga just as diverse (if not more diverse) than Western comics.  For teens or adults looking for a way in to considering the aftermath of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, rather than the bombings themselves, this paints a vivid but not overwhelming picture of what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10617458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This graphic novel consists of a couple of interconnected short stories that revolve around people that were affected by the bombing of Hiroshima. The first story of Minami got to me the most because the young woman finally allows herself to fall in love, but she then dies due to unforeseen complica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26813850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't been able to talk myself into liking most manga, but this collection of intertwined stories (set in 1955, 1987, and 2004) really won me over. The stories are quiet affairs that show how the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima continued to be present in people's lives. There are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21935526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this graphic novel.  Although I enjoyed it, and some of the drawings in it are quite well done, I felt that the second story jumped too much between the &quot;present&quot; and the past, and it was a bit hard to follow at times.  Still, this is a worthwhile read about lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35352885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply and beautifully portrayed stories of the long-term effect of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima through the lives of one family from 1945 through the present day.  The author seamlessly weaves together the details of family life, poverty, radiation sickness, and love in two narrativ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13972592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was beautiful. The narrative in the second story was a bit confusing, but I really enjoyed this thoughtful exploration of the lingering effects of the bombing of Hiroshima. I spent a year a few hours away from Hiroshima, so this story and its setting felt very personal for me. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is two stories, and the first one is near perfect, the second one a little blurrier. Kind of reminded me of Grave of the Fireflies- very sad, showing on a small scale the epic devastation that's so hard to get your head around. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Account of the effects of the atom bomb on several Hiroshima generations. Powerful. But to even begin to talk about it diminishes its impact.<br/><br/>I think I need to go off and think quietly now.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aw. Really pretty, neatly sad. I wish I could have kept a little better track of the family it was about, but generally I thought it was really well paced and not too showy. Yay.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 short manga stories about the lives of people in Hiroshima years after the bombings.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[really good graphic novel about the bombing of Hiroshima and its effects]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another touching manga about the the victim of atomic bomb.]]></body>
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