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A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
- Location(s): Nagasaki, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living...
- Location(s): Mexico, Nagasaki, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An exuberant debut that sweeps across the twentieth century—beginning where one world-famous love story left off to introduce us to another With Sophie Tucker belting from his hand-crank phonograph and a circle of boarding-school admirers laughing uproariously around him,...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Location(s): Dejima
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1640s
How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...
- Location(s): Nagasaki
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes. Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam...
- Location(s): London, Nagasaki
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s and post WW2
In his highly acclaimed debut, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot...