Plot: Set in Hiroshima, ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped during WWII. A young woman struggles to come to terms with the fact that she survived the bomb that was dropped when she was a little girl. She lost a sister due to radiation poisoning, and she herself has been affected as well. She no longer lives in Hiroshima, but when her father disappears she has a feeling he has gone to Hiroshima- the city where he met her mother. She decides to journey back to Hiroshima to find him and discover the mystery of why he has gone away.

Author: Fumiyo Kono

Alternative Titles:
Le Pays des Cerisiers
Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni

Publisher: Last Gasp Publishing

Genres: Drama, psychological, historical

Volumes: 1

Awards:
Japan Media Arts Festival: "Grand Prize for Manga Division"
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: "Creative Award"

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