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Yuri Kageyama
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Rave Associated Press Like many great novels, the specifics are clear ... The universal human story of losing a loved one comes alive amid the backdrop of these specifics, like many great novels ... It is very moving ... A good book for anyone ... Hwang is comfortable switching from a language that is a myopic closeup in its descriptiveness to free-wheeling poetic grandeur on the same page, entering the mind and soul of the woman who is our heroine ... Mesmerizing, and strangely comforting.
Positive Associated Press As fitting of a catastrophic theme, the writing rambles, although intentionally and in a delightfully mesmerizing style, meandering from a description of a scene to a dialogue, only to be interrupted by a sound, an image or an action, like memories of a dream, or a nightmare ... The layering of the subplots involving radiation and racism, as well as personal conflict, leads always to the big question: Why? The author never gives us a real answer or pretends to try ... Traveling across time, back and forth, as well as geographically, to Europe at one point, as well as Japan and the U.S., the storytelling may be easily called a bit chaotic. But one wouldn’t expect a nuclear disaster, war or murder to be too orderly ... Strangely riveting. Wildcat Dome is Tsushima’s final work.
Positive Associated Press Well-researched ... His art is a powerful statement on America, whether you ever knew him as a person or not. The characters in his life, even if they are gorgeous and tragic, are mere footnotes.
M G Sheftall
Positive Associated Press \"...a carefully and respectfully researched oral history ... The experience is tantamount to recalling a giant nightmare so painful it’s hard to read in one sitting ... For a reporter assigned to Japan, with her fair share of hibakusha interviews, parts of the book meant to explain the cultural backdrops seemed a bit lengthy and painstakingly detailed ... His book tells their stories, in all their ruthless violence and gory pathos, but, most important, as a cautionary tale about the perils of nuclear warfare.\