Full name: The Gods of Heavenly Punishment: A Novel

Author: Jennifer Cody Epstein Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners, War/Military Cultures: Japan, Asia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393347883 0393347885

In this evocative and thrilling epic novel, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan's New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers shower her city with napalm - an attack that leaves one hundred thousand dead within hours and half the city in ashen ruins. In the days that follow, Yoshi's old life will blur beyond recognition, leading her to a new world marked by destruction and shaped by those considered the enemy: Cam, a downed bomber pilot taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army; Anton, a gifted architect who helped modernize Tokyo's prewar skyline but is now charged with destroying it; and Billy, an Occupation soldier who arrives in the blackened city with a dark secret of his own. Directly or indirectly, each will shape Yoshi's journey as she seeks safety, love, and redemption. Similar books: The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns The Emperor's General by James Webb Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams The Light Over London by Julia Kelly The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams The Empire of the Senses by Alexis Landau Paris Encore by Bodie Thoene The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron The Girl from Krakow by Alex Rosenberg Child of Vengeance by David Kirk The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy While We're Far Apart by Lynn Austin Our Yanks by Margaret Mayhew The Daughter's Tale by Armando Lucas Correa Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes The Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard Flanagan In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng