Love at Six Thousand Degrees : A Novel

"Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world."�_"Yoko Ogawa, author ofA�The Memory Police (on Touring the Land of the Dead)A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young Russian-Japanese man. Inspired by Marguerite Duras�_Ts screenplay for �_oHiroshima, Mon Amour,�__ this novel is an undeniable demonstration of Kashimada�_Ts distinctive voice, the polish and precision of her literary style, and her dedication to plumbing the depths of her characters�_T psychology. Thrilling and poised in equal measure, dealing with the travails of history, with gendered identity, and with the tension between private and public selves,A�Love at Six Thousand DegreesA�is a literary highwire act by one of the most unique voices in contemporary Japanese fiction.