Fracture

Resource Information

The work Fracture represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Fracture

Statement of responsibility

Andrés Neuman ; [translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia]

Creator

• Neuman, Andrés, 1977-

Contributor

• Garcia, Lorenza
• Caistor, Nick

Author

• Neuman, Andrés, 1977-

Translator

• Garcia, Lorenza
• Caistor, Nick

Subject

• Japan -- Fiction
• Journalists -- Argentina -- Fiction
• Life change events -- Fiction
• Memory -- Fiction
• Men -- Japan -- Fiction
• Red hot reads
• Spanish fiction -- Translations into English
• Young women -- Fiction
• Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 -- Fiction

Genre

• Spanish fiction
• Red hot reads
• Fiction

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

An earthquake unnerves Tokyo on March 11, 2011, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster - and a tectonic stirring of the collective past. Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, an aging executive at an electronics company and a survivor of the atomic bomb, feels as though he is a fugitive of his own memory. As the seams of his country threaten to come undone yet again, he braces himself to make the biggest decision of his life. Meanwhile, four women narrate their own memories of Watanabe to an enigmatic Argentinian reporter investigating his life. Their stories, told in different languages and describing different loves, map a sociopolitical tour of Tokyo, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid, proving that nothing ever happens in one place, that every human event reverberates to the ends of the earth

Member of

• Fractura

Cataloging source

YDX

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Spanish

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult