num_pages: 304
description: Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the start of an irreparable fissure in their new marriage.Fifty years later, seemingly far removed from the day that defined their lives, Emiko visits Anton and Sophie, and in Dennis Bock’s powerfully imagined narrative, their histories converge.
language: English
title: The Ash Garden
titlecomplete: The Ash Garden
genres: Literature, School, Japan, Literary Fiction, World War II, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canada, Contemporary
ratings_count: 722
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Canada-Japan Literary Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Vintage