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"Two bombs over Japan. Two shells. One called Little Boy, one called Fat Man. Three days apart. The one implicit in the other. Brothers."Named one of "Flavorwire"'s best independent books of 2014, and winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize. In this striking debut novel, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan are personified as Fat Man and Little Boy. This small measure of humanity is a cruelty the bombs must suffer. Given life from death, the brothers' journey is one of surreal and unsettling discovery, transforming these symbols of mass destruction into beacons of longing and hope. "Impressive. . . The novel straddles a hybrid genre of historical magical realism." - "The Japan Times" "Meginnis's talent is his ability to make the reader feel empathy for souls who killed so many. . . Many pages in this novel feel like engravings . . . Meginnis has written one of the best, most natural novels about the atomic bombs." - Nick Ripatrazone, "The Millions" "[An] imaginative debut. . . Meginnis' story is both surprising and incisive." - "Publishers Weekly" Named one of "the year's most impressive debut novelists" by the "2014 Brooklyn Book Festival" "An imaginative and surprisingly int

Author

Meginnis, Mike

Publisher

Black Balloon Publishing

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936787210

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.64 / 5 (86 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14