Before Hiroshima : the confession of Murayama Kazuo : and other stories / Joshua Barkan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barkan, Joshua, 1969-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Fiction.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Japan.

Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

139 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Toby Press, 2000.

Summary:

As death approaches, an old Japanese man finds it necessary to cleanse his soul, to confront the mistakes of his youth, and to confess about a time when he might have been able to save the thousands who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The title novella is complemented by Suspended: Five Stories. In Forty, a man from Boston travels to a wildlife refuge in Uganda, seeking to overcome a personal crisis. In Suspende, an amnesiac in Hawaii attempts to discover his real identity. Shanghaied features two lonely co-workers searching for love and excitement while on vacation. Banana Bat tells of a newly married couple working to patch up an already faltering marriage. And in The Warrior, a young man falls in love with a woman whose fiance committed suicide following the Gulf War.

Contents:

Before Hiroshima

Suspended

Forty

Shanghaied

Banana bat

The warrior.

ISBN:

1902881133

9781902881133

1902881087

9781902881089

OCLC:

44156641