Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms: a manga about the atomic bomb

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms is a fictional manga that tells two stories of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in one compact volume. Okay, kind of fictional. Artist and author Fumiyo Kouno actually based her story on the experiences of several real survivors—the protagonist is a lovable young girl who survived the bomb ten years earlier. I don't want to give away too much, but the manga was a huge hit in Japan and became the basis for a live action feature and an award-winning Internet radio show. The English translation is available from Last Gasp. Recommended to anyone who's interested in reading about the aftermath of the atomic bomb in a very human way.

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno = 4.5/5 stars

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have you ever read _barefoot_gen_ [as it's know in english translation]?

same topic- very moving manga. i would recommend this one to anyone who wants to know what it was like to live through the bomb, since that is what the author did.

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have you ever read _barefoot_gen_ [as it's known in english translation]?

same topic- very moving manga. i would recommend this one to anyone who wants to know what it was like to live through the bomb, since that is what the author did.