Byrne Ben - Fire Flowers - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: August 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruin. Satsuko Takara and her teenage brother Hiroshi have lost their parents and each other during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo. Hal Lynch a haunted U. S. reconnaissance photographer is now a photojournalist in Japan where he stumbles upon a shocking story and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki a dissolute writer and Satsuko's former lover has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man. As these people's stories converge and spin outward the war - torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic brutal yet beautiful Fire Flowers powerfully portrays the shock the struggles and the difficult choices that arise from the destruction of war. A vivid tale of loss love and the search for truth played out on the ravaged streets of post - World War II Tokyo.
Title: Fire Flowers
Author(s): Byrne Ben
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609452483
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 2/3/2015
Category: Historical Fiction