Description

FSG, hardcover

Translated by: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Publication Date: March 18, 2025

Publisher Marketing: An epic novel of postwar Japana powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-tellingby the author of Territory of Light. Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyobut ever since the sudden death of Mitch’s brother, they’ve been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster. Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they’ve kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it’s all around them. Like history, it repeats itself. Yuko Tsushima’s sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the trutha tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.