Radiance
Published on 3. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-84408-018-2 (ISBN)
Description
Keiko steps on to a New York airstrip in March 1952, turning one horribly scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of the news photographers' cameras. An eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and killed the people she loved, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to be the first Hiroshima Maiden, liberal America's new poster girl, brought to the States to receive sponsored treatment for her radiation scars.
Radiance is a mesmerising novel about guilt and intimacy set against the backdrop of an America both appalled and entranced by its own destructive power.
Radiance is a mesmerising novel about guilt and intimacy set against the backdrop of an America both appalled and entranced by its own destructive power.
Reviews / Votes
** 'The muse is plying her work in these stories; that, or perhaps the living spirits of Alice Munro and Annie Proulx ... [Shaena Lambert] has the potential to rival them both * Globe and Mail * ** '...is an absorbing debut which exquisitely locates unsentimental emotional histories in an America buoyant with postwar consumerism and racked with paranoia * FT MAGAZINE * ** 'Lambert...skilfully threads her character * emotions and relationships with a brilliantly rendered historical background of McCarthyism and idealistic internationalism' * FT MAGAZINE * ** 'Her prose is so clean, her observation so translucent, her touch so light, affectionate and humorous, that all her characters thrive' *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84408-018-2 (9781844080182)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Shaena Lambert is Canadian (once taught by Margaret Atwood) and lives in Vancouver.