A Pale View of Hills
Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwells on the recent suicide of her elder daughter, Keiko. Despite the efforts of her surviving daughter to distract her thoughts, Etsuko finds herself recalling a particular summer in Nagasaki after the bomb fell.
Melancholic & NostalgicQuietly DevastatingHeartbreakingMysteriousThought-ProvokingThe fragility of memoryGuilt and self-deceptionHaunting post-war trauma
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