Fireflies

Availability:
Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

DRM:
Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781770895058

<p>A vivid and powerful novel set in post-WWII Japan, <em>Fireflies</em> chronicles the lives of four interweaving characters navigating the war-torn streets of Tokyo during the American occupation.</p> <p>August 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruins.</p> <p>Satsuko Takara and her teenage brother, Hiroshi, have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo five months before. Hal Lynch, a haunted US reconnaissance photographer, has now become a photojournalist in Japan, where he stumbles upon a shocking story, concealed in the aftermath of war, and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki, a dissolute writer, and once Satsuko’s beloved, has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man.</p> <p>As these characters’ stories spin out and converge, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, brutal, yet beautiful, <em>Fireflies</em> powerfully portrays the shock, the struggles, and the choices that arise from the destruction of war. </p>