The Cake Tree In The Ruins

Author: Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)

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Price : 24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781782274186
Publisher : Pushkin Press, Limited
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Publication date : 31 October 2018
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Author : Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
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Language : English
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Translator : Ginny Tapley Takemori
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Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex.

In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War.

They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable.

Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment.