The Cake Tree in the Ruins

Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)

Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly m...