Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57

by Gerald Vizenor

Book Overview

Hiroshima Bugi is an ingenious kabuki novel that begins in the ruins of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a new Rashomon Gate. Ronin Browne, the humane peace contender, is the hafu orphan son of Okichi, a Japanese boogie-woogie dancer, and Nightbreaker, an Anishinaabe from the White Earth Reservation who served as an interpreter for General Douglas MacArthur during the first year of the American occupation in Japan. Ronin draws on samurai and native traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803232845
• ISBN13: 9780803232846
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"