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The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Corre el año 1954 y el inspector Ichiro Abe, de la Policía de Tokio, tiene que enfrentarse al caso más complicado de su carrera: ocho supervivientes del holocausto nuclear de Hiroshima han sido asesinados en un tren. Marginados por la propia sociedad japonesa, el caso se complica cuando los cuatro asesinos que han tomado parte en los crímenes aparecen muertos en un hotel de Tokio. Por su parte, Ryo Watenabe, único superviviente de la hecatombe de Hiroshima, contrata al ahora exinspector Ichiro Abe para que le ayude a reconstruir el pasado de su familia.

Corre el año 1954 y el inspector Ichiro Abe, de la Policía de Tokio, tiene que enfrentarse al caso más complicado de su carrera: ocho supervivientes del holocausto nuclear de Hiroshima han sido asesinados en un tren. Marginados por la propia sociedad japonesa, el caso se complica cuando los cuatro asesinos que han tomado parte en los crímenes aparecen muertos en un hotel de Tokio. Por su parte, Ryo Watenabe, único superviviente de la hecatombe de Hiroshima, contrata al ahora exinspector Ichiro Abe para que le ayude a reconstruir el pasado de su familia.

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

El protagonista de la novela es un personaje irrepetible. John Smith Okada, americano mestizo, hijo de un filólogo norteamericano pacifista y una japonesa que se ha separado de su padre y reside en Japón. John es uno de los meteorólogos más preparados de su país y sus capacidades no pasan...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as vice president from January to April 1945 under FDR and as a US senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945. Assuming the presidency after FDR's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism.

For fans of Tayari Jones and Ruth Ozeki, from National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rizzuto comes a haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our...

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship - international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago.