Ground Zero, Nagasaki: Stories
ISBN: 9780231538565
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-ken -- Fiction;

An award-winning collection about the atomic bomb, told from the perspective of those who live in its shadow.


Seirai Yuichi is a novelist from Nagasaki. He is the author of Jeronimo no jujika ( Geronimo's Cross ), which won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers. He also won the Akutagawa Prize for Seisui ( Holy Water ) and the Ito Sei Literary Prize and the Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize for Bakushin ( Ground Zero, Nagasaki ).

Paul Warham is a translator who lives in Tokyo. His translations include Kenzo Kitakata's The Cage , Satoshi Azuchi's Supermarket , and Kazushi Hosaka's Plainsong .
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