Hot Ashes (collection)

«Hot Ash» is a political detective story and a documentary chronicle of a hidden rivalry over the creation of nuclear weapons. As one of the first in journalism, the author shows that during World War II work on their own atomic bomb was carried out not only by France, England, Germany, and the United States, but also by Japan—a country destined later to endure the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The edition also includes the novellas «Man and the Dragon»—about the confrontation with a destructive body of water—and «Pearls of Labor»—about how the Japanese deciphered the secret of how pearls appear and managed to “tame” oysters.

«Flowers from the Plum Tree» is a collection of stories about sharp differences in the kitchen traditions of China and Japan, through which the distinctive features of these neighboring peoples’ worldview and their attitude toward nature are revealed.