Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
71%
MANGA • 2003
status
Completed
start-date
30/9/2003
end-date
12/10/2004
country-origin
JP
popularity
3790
studios
synonyms
Yunagi no Machi
Sakura no Kuni
The Town of Evening Calm
The Country of Cherry Blossoms
Hiroshima - A Cidade da Calmaria
La ciudad al atardecer. El país de los cerezos
Le pays des cerisiers
Phố chiều lặng gió Mênh mang anh đào
Miasto wieczornego spokoju, kraj kwitnącej wiśni
Hiroshima. Nel paese dei fiori di ciliegio
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...
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.
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.
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 Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book—an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece!