The Ash Garden

Download or read book The Ash Garden written by Dennis Bock and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the start of an irreparable fissure in their new marriage. Fifty years later, seemingly far removed from the day that defined their lives, Emiko visits Anton and Sophie, and in Dennis Bock’s powerfully imagined narrative, their histories converge.