The cake tree in the ruins
Nosaka, Akiyuki, 1930-20152018
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In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of 'The Cake Tree in the Ruins' are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War. They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable.
Main title:
The cake tree in the ruins / Akiyuki Nosaka ; translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Author:
Nosaka, Akiyuki, 1930-2015, authorTakemori, Ginny Tapley, translator
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2018.
Collation:
200 pages ; 17 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781782274186 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.635G
LC class:
PL857.O8
Local class:
AFPBK
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
2270554
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