Yunagi no Machi Sakura no KuniTown of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms - Kouno, Fumiyo
Authors:
Kouno, Fumiyo,
Synopsis
Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever...
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!
Background
Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni won the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize in the manga category in 2004. In 2005, it received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award.
It was published in English as Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Last Gasp on February 2, 2007, with a reprint on February 25, 2015. It has also been published in French by Kana, Spanish by Glenat, Italian by Ronin Manga and Portuguese by JBC Mangás.
The manga has inspired a radio drama, a novel, and an award-winning live action movie.
It was published in English as Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Last Gasp on February 2, 2007, with a reprint on February 25, 2015. It has also been published in French by Kana, Spanish by Glenat, Italian by Ronin Manga and Portuguese by JBC Mangás.
The manga has inspired a radio drama, a novel, and an award-winning live action movie.
