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Sam
Jan 09, 2013 rated it it was ok
Shelves: reviewed, 1-contemp-literary, setting-asia-east, setting-war, read-2013, setting-japan
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment gives us a glimpse of the U.S.’s firebombing of Tokyo during WWII. Epstein presents slices of life before, during, and after the bombing through the eyes of a U.S. bomber pilot, a young Japanese girl, an American architect who at different times has a hand in building up Japan and (indirectly) in destroying it, and an American officer serving under Gen. MacArthur during the U.S. occupation of the country after the Axis defeat.

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