{"product_id":"9781770893917","title":"Fireflies","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vivid and powerful novel set in post-WWII Japan, \u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the lives of four interweaving characters navigating the war-torn streets of Tokyo during the American occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAugust 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSatsuko Takara and her teenage brother, Hiroshi, have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo five months before. Hal Lynch, a haunted US reconnaissance photographer, has now become a photojournalist in Japan, where he stumbles upon a shocking story, concealed in the aftermath of war, and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki, a dissolute writer, and once Satsuko’s beloved, has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs these characters’ stories spin out and converge, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, brutal, yet beautiful, \u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e powerfully portrays the shock, the struggles, and the choices that arise from the destruction of war. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ben Byrne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45001832235168,"sku":"9781770893917","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_77ed9b20-9639-4398-b8d3-0786b841c3d6.jpg?v=1686597344","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781770893917","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}