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Anshū: Dark Sorrow

Juliet S. Kono

Fiction. Based on historical events, ANSHU is a tale of passion and human triumph in the face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawai'i and the devastation in Hiroshima. A pregnant and unmarried Hilo teenager, Himiko Aoki, finds her Hawai'i Japanese American identity clashing with Japan's cultural norms when she is sent to live with relatives in Tokyo in 1941 and becomes trapped there with the outbreak of war. When America drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Himiko finds herself adapting in unexpected ways just to survive.

GenresAtomic bomb victimsFictionAmericansJapan

325 pages

English edition · First published 2010 by Bamboo Ridge Press · ISBN 9780910043830

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