Akiyuki Nosaka

Estas dos novelas,“La tumba de las luciérnagas”(octubre de 1967) y“Las algas americanas”(septiembre de 1967), levantaron gran expectación al publicarse, y en 1968 ambas ganaron el premio Naoki. Con u

Estas dos novelas, La tumba de las luciérnagas (octubre de 1967) y Las algas americanas (septiembre de 1967), levantaron gran expectación al publicarse, y en 1968 ambas ganaron el premio Naoki. Con un talento fuera de lo comun, complejo y desasosegado, Nosaka esconde en su estilo una mirada que no rehuye los aspectos mas sordidos y crudos de la existencia. La tumba de las luciernagas es la historia de la muerte por innanicion de Seita, un niño, en 1945. Seita ha visto morir de hambre a su hermana menor, a la que cuidaba tras la muerte de su madre en un bombardeo. En Las algas americanas, Nosaka describe con sentido del humor el desconcierto de los que vieron transfigurarse su mundo con la llegada de la Democracia o la Constitucion. Con la visita de un matrimonio de pensionistas de los Estados Unidos al Japon durante el periodo de reeducacion, nos muestra que en la conciencia de los vencidos subyace una sumision de profundos significados. Durisimo, despiadado, Nosaka nos deja la huella de la fibra autentica y sin concesiones.

Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortexI am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruinsAkiyuki Nosaka, 2014In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka lived through the Allied firebombing of Kobe. His father and mother were killed in the raid. His sister died shortly afterwards. The unforgettably powerful stories in this book are inspired by his memories of that time.A lonely whale searches the oceans for a mate, and sacrifices himself for love; a mother desperately tries to save her son with her tears; a huge, magnificent tree grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable.Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, these stories express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also reveal how love can illuminate even the darkest moment.Akiyuki Nosaka was born in 1930 in Japan, and was a member of the yakeato generation, the generation of the ashes, who survived the devastating firebombing of Japan during the Second World War. Nosaka was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, essayist, lyricist, singer and politician. His adoptive parents were killed in the Allied firebombing of Kobe, and after he was evacuated with his sister, she died of malnutrition. These experiences inspired the stories in this collection, as well as one of his best-known works, Grave of the Fireflies, which was turned into a hugely successful Studio Ghibli film (called a masterpiece by the Guardian), and which is forthcoming in a new translation from Pushkin Press. Nosaka died in 2015.

Striking and eloquent stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortexA whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her bodys water to save her son, and her desiccated form turns into a kite; a wolf rescues a sick child abandoned by her parents, only to die himself at the hand of men. However, bunkers can also become real homes, a small Japanese girl and an American POW briefly understand each other and a miraculous tree feeds starving children...This is war, no doubt, but told by someone who understands how children truly experience war and its aftermath - the bombings and parents deaths, the life of orphans who roam the streets, the starvation and blind violence in a society beyond destruction.Akiyuki Nosaka remembers what it was like to be a child caught in war-torn Japan in 1945, and he retells his experiences in this collection of powerful and beautifully expressive stories for children.Akiyuki Nosakas adoptive parents were killed in the Allied firebombing of Kobe, Japan in 1945, and at age fourteen he fled with his younger sister to an evacuation camp, where she starved to death. This experience led him to write the award-winning Grave of the Fireflies, later made into an internationally acclaimed animated film, as well as The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine. Nosaka is well known in Japan as an essayist, lyricist, singer, politician and TV presenter. He has written nearly one hundred works of fiction and non-fiction, and continues to write columns for newspapers and magazines to this day.

Les dues novel·les breus“La tomba de les llumenetes”(octubre de 1967) i“Les algues americanes”(setembre de 1967), van aixecar una gran expectació en ser publicades, i l’any 1968 totes dues van guanya