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Hiroshima Bomb Money

by (author) Terry Watada

Publisher
NeWest Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2024
Subjects
Asian American, Siblings, War & Military

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This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A simple book with few images, or list items. It includes regular formatting, which are defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains written Japanese using the English alphabet, which has been tagged as Japanese language, for screen readers. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of content, page-list, landmarks, reading order, Structural Navigation and semantic structure. Blank pages have been removed from this EPUB for ease of use.

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Compatibility tested:
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    ISBN
    9781774391013
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $11.99

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Description

Through the lives of three siblings living in Hiroshima, Japan, Terry Watada explores the sweep of history during the years 1930 to 1945. The youngest, Chisato Akamatsu, travels to Canada looking for a new life but is confronted by the brutalities of immigration, a troubled marriage and the humiliation of the Japanese internment by the Canadian government. Hideki, the only brother, joins the military to fight for the Emperor and find “glory” in China, but finds only the fallacy of patriotism, the brutality of war, and the futility of existence. Chiemi, the oldest, was in the city when to the atom bomb hit. The three encapsulate the hopes, fears, dreams, the inhumanity of the period and resiliency of humans caught in historic events. In his fourth novel, Canadian poet, dramatist, and novelist Terry Watada delves into the Pacific War, looking at WWII from a Japanese perspective, unique in Canadian literature.

About the author

Terry Watada is a well-published author living in Toronto, Ontario. He has three novels, five poetry books, and a short story collection in print. Hiroshima Bomb Money, his fourth novel, is the culmination of his exploration of the Japanese and Japanese Canadian experience. Hiroshima Bomb Money comes from the heart, more so than any other, since at its core, the novel encompasses the Japanese experience during World War II. The book illuminates the events, incidents and atrocities of the Hiroshima bomb, the invasion of China and the Canadian Internment.

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