The cake tree in the ruins
The whale that fell in love with a submarine
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Pushkin Press
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The whale that fell in love with a submarine "'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War.They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment."-- |
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| Beschreibung: | "The first seven stories in this volume were first published by Pushkin Press in 2015 as The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine"--Title page verso |
| Beschreibung: | 157 pages 1 portrait 17 cm |
| ISBN: | 1782274189 1-78227-418-9 9781782274186 978-1-78227-418-6 |