01992cam a2200277 4500 431870237 TxAuBib 20200831120000.0 200326s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020012920 9780385545372 HRD 26.95 0385545371 HRD 26.95 TxAuBib Serizawa, Asako. Inheritors [BOOK] / Asako Serizawa. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2020] viii, 270 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. Flight -- Luna -- Allegiance -- Willow run -- I stand accused, I, Jesus of the ruins -- The visitor -- Train to Harbin -- The last bulwark of the Imperial Empire -- Passing -- Pavilion -- Crop -- The garden, aka theorem for the survival of the species -- Echolocation. Spanning more than 150 years, and set in multiple locations in colonial and postcolonial Asia and the United States, these interconnected stories contest assumptions and illuminate the complicated ways we experience, interpret, and pass on our personal and shared histories. A retired doctor is forced to confront the horrific moral consequences of his wartime actions. An elderly woman subjects herself to an interview, gradually revealing a fifty-year old murder and its shattering aftermath. And in the last days of a doomed war, a prodigal son who enlisted against his parents' wishes survives the American invasion of his island outpost, only to be asked for a sacrifice more daunting than any he imagined. Serizawa's characters walk the line between the devastating realities of war and the banal needs of everyday life as they struggle to reconcile their experiences with the changing world. 20200831. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. War fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Short stories.