Thursday, July 26, 2012

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, by Fumiyo Kouno

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, by Fumiyo Kouno, 104 pages


Wow, this is a beautifully told and drawn graphic novel, comprised of interconnected stories.  Life went on after the bombing of Hiroshima, but it was forever affected and altered. The stories within are those of commoners who find their loved ones dying young from radiation, who meet discrimination for being potentially exposed to the bomb, and who have to come to terms with having been spared by the bomb when their families weren’t.  Life and love go on.  It’s far more subtle than the classic Barefoot Gen, but perhaps even more compelling.   

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