WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
Kimura Yūsuke. Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge: Two Novellas of Japan’s 3/11 Disaster
Translated by Doug Slaymaker (2018)
“Kimura pulls the reader into the irradiated zone where residents struggle for justice against a government that treats them as disposable as the cattle they illegally tend. Sacred Cesium asks tough questions: What will happen to Japan’s irradiated areas? Who is responsible for this nuclear tragedy? Slaymaker’s translation brings this important novel into dialogue with nuclear fiction worldwide.”
– Rachel DiNitto, University of Oregon
“Isa’s Deluge is at once a story of the triple disaster in northeastern Japan and one man’s search for his roots. Kimura’s themes of destruction and ancestry culminate in an unforgettable, searing attack by the long marginalized against powers that be.”
– Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington
