| International Standard Book Number |
9781668083079 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668083055 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668083051 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Hawley, Samuel Jay, 1960- author.
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| Title Statement |
Daikon : a novel / Samuel Hawley.
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| Edition Statement |
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xii, 337 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337).
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific-not two-and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this strange new device"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese American wife, Noriko, has been imprisoned by the brutal Thought Police. An American bomber, downed over Japan on the first day of August 1945, offers the scientist a surprising chance at salvation. The Imperial Army dispatches him to examine an unusual device recovered from the plane's wreckage -- a bomb containing uranium -- and tells him that if he can unlock its mysteries, his wife will be released. Working in secrecy under crushing pressure, Kan begins to disassemble the bomb and study its components. One of his assistants falls ill after mishandling the uranium, but his alarming deterioration, and Kan's own symptoms, are ignored by the commanding officer demanding results. Desperate to stave off Japan's surrender to the Allies, the army will stop at nothing to harness the weapon's unimaginable power. They order Kan to prepare the bomb for manual detonation over a target -- a suicide mission that will strike a devastating blow against the Americans. Kan is soon confronted with a series of agonizing decisions that will test his courage, his loyalty, and his very humanity.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Physicists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spouses Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Japan Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Atomic bomb Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Japan History 1926-1945 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Alternative histories (Fiction)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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