Radiance by Shaena Lambert
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.
** '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’ *
** '...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’ *
Shaena Lambert is Canadian (once taught by Margaret Atwood) and lives in Vancouver.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844080182 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844080188 |
| Title | Radiance |
| Author | Shaena Lambert |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2008-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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