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Hazzard, Shirley.
THE GREAT FIRE.

Edition: Book club edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. ISBN: 0-374-166447.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 31340

Keywords: hiroshima, national book award, Women Authors, world war ii

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Hazzard, Shirley.
THE GREAT FIRE.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166447.

Condition: Fine in fine (first issue) dust jacket.

Book ID: 35915

Keywords: hiroshima, national book award, Women Authors, world war ii

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Hazzard, Shirley.
THE GREAT FIRE.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 'great fire' of the title is World War II, which swept Europe and Asia - in the aftermath, Leith, a war hero, is sent to occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima. Dustjacket praise from Michael Cunningham (who calls Hazzard 'purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today') and Ann Patchett (who says it is 'brilliant and dazzling... worth a twenty year wait.') Winner of the 2003 National Book Award. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-166447.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (gold award sticker on dj)

Book ID: 86129

Keywords: hiroshima, national book award, Women Authors, world war ii

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Hirahara, Naomi.
THE SUMMER OF THE BIG BACHI.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

New York: Delta / Bantam, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original, and introducing Mas Arai, a Japanese-American gardener as the unlikely protagonist in this mystery with its roots in Hiroshima. 287 pp.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 76338

Keywords: arc, first novel, gardener, hiroshima, japanese american, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, southern california, uncorrected proof
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Moy, Jean Oda
SNOW ON WILLOW: A Nisei Memoir.

Edition: Trade paperback original.

BookSurge Publishing, (2009). SIGNED - Autobiography of an American-born daughter of Japanese immigrants who is caught in Japan in the 1940s and returns to America after the war. "She spends her early childhood exposed to two cultures in a pre-war Japanese settlement in West Seattle. When U.S. anti-Japanese sentiments escalate, she is called Jap and told Go back home. Her parents take her to their homeland. Here, she experiences discrimination from the Japanese, who call her Yankee girl because she is different and because of anti-U.S. sentiment. During the war, she and her family endure terrifying air raids, severe food shortages and many other hardships. They are only 40 miles from Hiroshima when the Americans drop the atomic bomb…
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BookSurge Publishing, (2009). SIGNED - Autobiography of an American-born daughter of Japanese immigrants who is caught in Japan in the 1940s and returns to America after the war. "She spends her early childhood exposed to two cultures in a pre-war Japanese settlement in West Seattle. When U.S. anti-Japanese sentiments escalate, she is called Jap and told Go back home. Her parents take her to their homeland. Here, she experiences discrimination from the Japanese, who call her Yankee girl because she is different and because of anti-U.S. sentiment. During the war, she and her family endure terrifying air raids, severe food shortages and many other hardships. They are only 40 miles from Hiroshima when the Americans drop the atomic bomb and they feel its massive jolt." INSCRIBED on the title page. Back in the United States, determined to get a college educaion, she became of the first Asian American students at Brandeis University where she worked under the famous psychologist, Abraham Maslow. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-1439236376.
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Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 86275

Keywords: 1950s US, Asian and Asian American, autobiography, hiroshima, japan, world war ii
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Seth, Vikram.
ALL YOU WHO SLEEP TONIGHT: Poems.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of quietly reflective lyric poems on topics ranging from the airport baggage claim to Hiroshima, China, and the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58516X.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 53593

Keywords: china, hiroshima, Poetry

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