Product Description
This two-part novel is set in Hiroshima, fifty years after the fact. The title character of Kara-Kun was in utero at the moment of the atom bomb's detonation, and is mentally deficient, like many such "bomb babies." His hobby is disrupting weddings at the cathedral. Not surprisingly, Kara-kun disappears soon after spoiling a Yakuza wedding...
In Flip-Kun, an American is being stalked through Hiroshima by "hit-missionaries" from a certain American pseudo-religion, whose patriarchs have declared a western-style fatwa on his head. "A wicked imagination...sheer invention..." (The Daily Yomiuri)
About the Author
Tom Bradley is a former lounge harpist. He holds a Ph.D. In English, and taught British and American literature to Chinese graduate students in the years before the Tiananmen Square massacre. His novel ACTING ALONE was published in 1995 by Browntrout of San Francisco. His work has been nominated for the Editor's Book Award, the New York University Bobst Award, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel. His short stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have won various Tokyo contests. One was translated into Japanese.
