夕凪の街 桜の国•Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever...<br> A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.<br><br> Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.<br><br> The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo K&ocirc;no examines this question in her outstanding book&mdash;an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!