Wildcat Dome
$23.61
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age 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 togethe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241649480 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024164948X |
| Author: | Yuko Tsushima, Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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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 *I will be carrying this extraordinary book with me all summer – Andrew Durbin * Frieze *
About The Author
Yuko Tsushima
Yuko Tsushima (Author)
Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947. She was 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 (Translator)
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo and raised in Texas, she is the co-translator of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Kappa (New Directions, 2023). She lives in New York City.
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