Fracture

By: Andres Neuman, Nick Caistor - translator, Lorenza Garcia - translator

Narrated by: Janet Metzger, Paul Woodson

Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andres Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes.

An earthquake unnerves Tokyo on March 11, 2011, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster - and a tectonic stirring of the collective past. Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, an aging executive at an electronics company and a survivor of the atomic bomb, feels as though he is a fugitive of his own memory. As the seams of his country threaten to come undone yet again, he braces himself to make the biggest decision of his life.

Meanwhile, four women narrate their own memories of Watanabe to an enigmatic Argentinian reporter investigating his life. Their stories, told in different languages and describing different loves, map a sociopolitical tour of Tokyo, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid, proving that nothing ever happens in one place, that every human event reverberates to the ends of the earth.

©2018 Andres Neuman (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Japan's last living voice from WWII

The book was a look inside a man who survived the Atomic Bomb and survived the Tsunami. There are no longer any first voices alive. who would have been yoing adults or teens during WWII. The lack of voices makes the . told through a tunnel.
Were lessons learned and did Japan truly survive?