Book review of trinity trinity trinity by Erika Kobayashi trans Brian Bergstrom

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Type of book: atomic power, history, ww2, 2011 incident in Japan, nuclear power, history of nuclear power, 2024 Olympics, speculative, fiction 

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There are at least three or four characters. There is the grandmother character who is starting to suffer from Trinity disease and Who is quiet and introspective. The mother character seems to be caught up between past present and future at a deadly cost to her, and the daughter who is a typical teenager and is sullen and seemingly unaffected. There is also the sister but I don't think she has large part in the story.     

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How do paths cross and influence each other

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The story is in first person narrative from a woman's point of view about one day of her life when Olympics arrived in Tokyo in 2024. The woman's mother suffers from a mysterious disease called Trinity Trinity Trinity, and woman has to worry about her mother, her daughter and her sister. The story takes place over an entire day, from 8 AM until about 5 PM (1700 hours) and it has the woman discussing what is going on in Japan, from fear of disease within society to Japanese history past 1945 as well as history of nuclear power in mysterious stones. 

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As far as I know, this is probably first time that I will encourage the reader to read both Trinity Trinity Trinity and the author's collection of short stories under the title Sunrise  because both reveal and conceal about one another. Perhaps like everyone else in the world, I am familiar and know of 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Trinity Trinity Trinity takes the reader into a deeper world of nuclear power and its effect on Japan, and there is a lot that I learned as well about nuclear power. The novel is unsettling but definitely an important read, especially considering the talks and possible wars that haunts the modern day readers. 

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4 out of 5
(0: Stay away unless a masochist 1: Good for insomnia 2: Horrible but readable; 3: Readable and quickly forgettable, 4: Good, enjoyable 5: Buy it, keep it and never let it go.)