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RIKU AND THE KINGDOM OF WHITE IBD

RANDY TAGUCHI / RAJ MAHTANI
BALESTIER PRESS
09 / 2016
9781911221029
Inglés

Sinopsis

Riku Sato is in the fifth grade, when he moves from Utsunomiya to Fukushima to switch schools. Minamisoma, the town he arrives in, is virtually deserted&ndash,after the devastating earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011, which struck the Tohoku region in Japan and triggered a nuclear meltdown, not a single soul is in sight, not in the roads, nor in the school grounds. Riku spends endless, humdrum days in this ghost town, yearning to play outside, to take his bicycle out for a spin and ride like the wind, when he comes across the otherworldly, sparkling snowscape of a mountain in northern Japan. There, in the majestic kingdom of white, he befriends good-natured grownups, encounters wild animals in the mountains, and comes into contact with a mysterious boy and his equally mysterious companion, Tonchi&hellip,áRiku and the Kingdom of Whiteáis a coming-of-age story of a wide-eyed boy',s courage, brimming with hope of a bright and shining future. It is also the story of the lost innocence of an untold number of children who continue to live, day after day, undaunted, in Fukushima, after March 11, 2011, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.