Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms - Softcover

Kouno, Fumiyo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867197218 ISBN 13: 9780867197211

Publisher: Last Gasp, 2015

Synopsis

What impact did World War II and the dropping of the atomic bomb have on the common people of Japan? Through the eyes of an average woman living in 1955, Japanese artist Fumiyo Kouno answers these questions. This award-winning manga appears in an English translation for the first time. Fumiyo Kouno’s light, free style of drawing evokes a tender reflection of this difficult period in Hiroshima’s postwar past. As the characters continue with everyday life, the shadow of the war and the atomic bombing linger ghostlike in the background. Kouno’s beautiful storytelling touches the reader’s heart but is never overly sentimental. A widely embraced best seller in Japan, where the work was also controversial, Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is the winner of several prestigious awards including Grand Prize at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival (2004), New Life Award at the 9th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes (2005). Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is made up of

About this title

About the Author:

Fumiyo Kouno was born in 1968 in Hiroshima, Japan. She started drawing manga in junior high school. She published her first commercial manga in 1995.

About this edition

• Publisher: Last Gasp
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0867197218
• ISBN 13: 9780867197211
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100
• Editor: Macias Patrick, Turner Colin