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Radiance

Keiko disembarks from a plane on a New York airstrip in March 1952, turning one horribly scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of news photographers' cameras. An eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima and killed the people she loved, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to undergo sponsored treatments for her face. On the tarmac, waiting nervously, is Daisy, a childless housewife who is to take care of the girl in her suburban Long Island home...

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  • "Keiko disembarks from a plane on a New York airstrip in March 1952, turning one horribly scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of news photographers' cameras. An eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima and killed the people she loved, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to undergo sponsored treatments for her face. On the tarmac, waiting nervously, is Daisy, a childless housewife who is to take care of the girl in her suburban Long Island home..."@en
  • "Radiance is a novel that draws us deeply into the worlds of two women living in the shadow of the atom bomb - and into the zeitgeist of an America appalled and entranced by its own destructive power."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Radiance : a novel"
  • "Radiance"
  • "Radiance"@en

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