Daikon by Samuel Hawley
Set in Japan during the final days of World War II, Daikon follows physicist Keizo Kan after he loses his daughter and his wife Noriko is arrested. When a downed American bomber is found to contain an unexpected uranium bomb, the Imperial Army forces Kan to examine and ready the device in exchange for his wife’s freedom, forcing him to confront impossible moral choices amid the city’s ruins.
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