An epic novel of postwar Japanâa powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-tellingâby the author of Territory of Light.
Mitch and Yonko havenât spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyoâbut ever since the sudden death of Mitchâs brother, theyâve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster.
Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that theyâve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but itâs all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.
Yuko Tsushimaâs sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the truthâa tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.
Wildcat Dome - Yuko Tsushima & Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
An epic novel of postwar Japanâa powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-tellingâby the author of Territory of Light.
Mitch and Yonko havenât spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyoâbut ever since the sudden death of Mitchâs brother, theyâve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster.
Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that theyâve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but itâs all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.
Yuko Tsushimaâs sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the truthâa tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.