The Gods of Heavenly Punishment

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Cody Epstein

• Book ID: 110799892
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393089738
• ASIN: B007Q6XLWA

✦ Synopsis

"Showcases war's bitter ironies...as well as its romantic serendipities." --Vogue

One summer night in prewar Japan, eleven-year-old Billy Reynolds takes snapshots at his parents' dinner party. That same evening his father Anton--a prominent American architect--begins a torrid affair with the wife of his master carpenter. A world away in New York, Cameron Richards rides a Ferris wheel with his sweetheart and dreams about flying a plane. These three men will all draw together to shape the fate of a young girl caught in the midst of one of World War II's most horrific events--the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo

Exquisitely rendered, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment tells the stories of families on both sides of the Pacific: their loves and infidelities, their dreams and losses--and their shared connection to one of the most devastating acts of war in human history.