A universe of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds struggle against the desecration of society and the environment symbolized by the first atomic bomb.
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"... decries racial hatred and warfare regardless of time or place." -- Choice
"A passionate call for human rights and justice ... incorporates the beauty of Indian legend and the poetry of apocalyptic destruction." -- Publisher's Weekly
"A small but powerful work of fiction.... [it] echoes in the mind long after the last page has been turned." -- West Coast Review of Books
"[A] powerful and disturbing novel." -- New York Times
"A passionate call for human rights and justice ... incorporates the beauty of Indian legend and the poetry of apocalyptic destruction." -- Publisher's Weekly
"A small but powerful work of fiction.... [it] echoes in the mind long after the last page has been turned." -- West Coast Review of Books
"[A] powerful and disturbing novel." -- New York Times
About the Author
Makoto Oda was horn in 1932 in Osaka. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, where he majored in classical Greek philosophy and literature, then attended Harvard University on a Fulbright Scholarship. In 1961 he published a book describing his travels around the world on a shoe-string budget, which became the bestseller of the year among Japan's postwar generation. Widely known as the leader of Beheiren (League of Citizens' Movements for Peace in Vietnam) and of other major citizens movements on anti-war and anti-nuclear issues, his numerous essays and full-length novels reflect his activities both in Japan and abroad.
D. H. Whittaker, the translator, was born in New Zealand and has degrees from ICU, Tokyo, and London University. He is the author of Managing of Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories, Small Firms in the Japanese Economy, Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture: What it Means to Take Japan Seriously (with Ronald Dore), and Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis (co-editor). He is current a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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