Under Hiroshima

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John Zeugner’s collected stories, Under Hiroshima, are about much more than Japan and the human souls that populate and make their ways through that country. The stories’ common denominator is the unlikelihood of successful cross-cultural translation; the problematic, if not downright impossible transplantation of one’s cultural norms and language into those of another culture, even in the course of their well-intended interlocutions.
– Lee Fontanella