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A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

ISBN 
9780099592471
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R215.00
Published 
June 2016
About the book: 

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016

'Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.' - InStyle


Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter.

When a man claiming to be Hideo arrives on her doorstep, she is forced to revisit the past; the hurt and humiliation of her early life, the intoxication of a first romance and the realisation that if she had loved her daughter in a different way, she might still be alive today.

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