Secrets and betrayal are at the heart of this well told novel. The effects of the bombing surrounds this story that goes back and forth in time. Where forty years later a badly scarred man will arrive at her door claiming to be her grandson. She and her husband will move to America, no longer to bear the memories in their own country. This is where this story starts, the bombing which will cost Amaterasu her daughter and young grandson.
The word the Japanese use when referring to the bombing by the Americans of Nagasaki. Set against the dramatic backdrop of Nagasaki before and after the bomb, A DICTIONARY OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING is about regret, forgiveness and the exquisite pain of love.ģ.5 Pikadon, pika meaning bright light and don, meaning boom. We can’t rewrite history, but can we create a new future? For years she has held on to the idea that she did what she had to do to protect her family… but now nothing seems so certain. The stranger forces Amaterasu to revisit her past the hurt and humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance, the fierceness of a mother’s love. So this man is either a miracle or a cruel trick.
When a badly scarred man knocks on the door of Amaterasu Takahashi’s retirement home and says that he is her grandson, she doesn’t believe him.īut if you’ve become adept at lying, can you tell when someone is speaking the truth?Amaterasu knows her grandson and her daughter died the day the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki she searched for them amongst the ruins of her devastated city and has spent years burying her memories of that brutal summer. 'What and how much should I admit to myself, and to others? Should I begin with this acknowledgement: my daughter Yuko might be alive today if I had loved her in a different way?'
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