Wildcat Dome, 9780241649466
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Post-nuclear Japan: Secrets bind two orphans in a city undone.
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    240 pages

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    18 August 2025

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Summary

Wildcat Dome: A Novel of Postwar Japan

Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo—but ever since the sudden death of Mitch’s brother, they’ve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster.

Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. B…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241649466
ISBN-10:0241649463
Author:Yuko Tsushima, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:18 August 2025
Weight:253g
Dimensions:216mm x 136mm x 18mm
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Critics Review

A brilliantly layered commentary on postwar Japan… despite the grave subject matter, the novel’s tone, preserved faithfully in Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda’s expert translation, is gentle and warm, suggesting the author’s abundant optimism for human adaptability * TLS *Subtle and engaging, poised somewhere between a character study and a murder mystery * Literary Review *

About The Author

Yuko Tsushima

Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo, raised in Texas, she is the co-translator of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Kappa. She lives in New York City.

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