Love at Six Thousand Degrees : A Novel

Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world.—Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police (on Touring the Land of the Dead)A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young Russian-Japanese man. Inspired by Marguerite Duras’s screenplay for “Hiroshima, Mon Amour,â€