An epic novel of postwar nuclear-age Japan by the author of Territory of Light Mitch and
Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children they were inseparable raised together in an
orphanage outside Tokyo-but ever since the sudden death of Mitch's brother they've been
mourning in their private ways worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear
catastrophe they choose to reunite finding each other in a city undone by disaster. Mitch
and Yonko have drifted apart but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they
witnessed an unspeakable tragedy a tragedy that they've kept secret for their entire lives.
They never speak of it but it's all around them. Like history it repeats itself. Yuko
Tsushima's sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome
is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial of the ways in which countries and their citizens
avoid telling the truth-a tale of guilt loss and inevitable reckoning. 'Tsushima evades any
label her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the
heart of humanity.' Japan Times
