Ash Garden

Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie a Jewish refugee it marks the start of an irreparable fissure in their new marriage. . Fifty years later seemingly far removed from the day that defined their lives Emiko visits Anton and Sophie and in Dennis Bocks powerfully imagined narrative their histories converge.