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Quiz  sea mejor as  que al rev s.  ...] Los hombres se deprimen con facilidad una vez que pierden a su compa era. Puede que sean m s rom nticos que las mujeres.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDurante toda su vida, Yukiko vivi  con un terrible secreto: la ma ana del 9 de agosto de 1945, antes de que se lanzara la bomba sobre Nagasaki, ella mat  a su padre. En una carta que le deja a su hija despu s de morir, confiesa el crimen y revela que tiene un hermanastro. Pronto se descubrir  que no es solo Yukiko quien guardaba secretos inconfesables. Las historias personales se entrelazan con los acontecimientos hist ricos: la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Jap n, los conflictos con Corea, el terremoto de 1923. Las generaciones se suceden mientras emerge un retrato l cido de una sociedad, la japonesa, llena de contradicciones y vinculada a sus tradiciones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e En el fondo, la naturaleza, presencia constante y discreta, delicada y elegante como la escritura de Aki Shimazaki: el viento que acaricia una mejilla, las nubes en un sofocante cielo de verano, las luci rnagas volando sobre un arroyo, la hierba azul de wasurenagusa, las camelias en el bosque de Nagasaki. Frases cortas de una refinada simplicidad, unas veces delicadamente po ticas, otras sensuales, que afrontan dramas privados y universales y a trav s de las cuales hasta la historia m s oscura termina por resolverse con la ligereza que Shimazaki es capaz de infundirle.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Prix Ringuet, the Canada-Japan Literary Prize, and the Gouverneur-G n ral Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen live longer than men. Maybe it's better that way.  . . .] Men get easily depressed once their partner dies. They are probably more romantic than women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout her life, Yukiko kept a terrible secret: on August 9, 1945, before the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, she killed her father. 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