Samuel Hawley Daikon recensie, review en informatie oorlogsroman van de Canadese schrijver die zich afspeelt in Japan aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op 8 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de roman Samuel Healey. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Samuel Hawley Daikon review en recensie

• “A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance.” (John Grisham)
• “I could not look away. This novel is storytelling at its finest.” (Karl Marlantes)
• “Spellbinding…A breathtaking chain reaction that unleashes the true power of the novel.” (Adam Johnson)
• “Extraordinary…Daikon will sweep you away.” (Jess Walter)

Daikon

• Auteur: Samuel Hawley (Canada)
• Soort boek: Tweede Wereldoorlog roman
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
• Verschijnt: 8 juli 2025
• Omvang: 352 pagina’s
• Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
• Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Japan

A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific—not two—and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this terrifying new device.

War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese American wife, Noriko, has been imprisoned by the brutal Thought Police. An American bomber, downed over Japan on the first day of August 1945, offers the scientist a surprising chance at salvation. The Imperial Army dispatches him to examine an unusual device recovered from the plane’s wreckage—a bomb containing uranium—and tells him that if he can unlock its mysteries, his wife will be released.

Working in secrecy under crushing pressure, Kan begins to disassemble the bomb and study its components. One of his assistants falls ill after mishandling the uranium, but his alarming deterioration, and Kan’s own symptoms, are ignored by the commanding officer demanding results. Desperate to stave off Japan’s surrender to the Allies, the army will stop at nothing to harness the weapon’s unimaginable power. They order Kan to prepare the bomb for manual detonation over a target—a suicide mission that will strike a devastating blow against the Americans. Kan is soon confronted with a series of agonizing decisions that will test his courage, his loyalty, and his very humanity.

An extraordinary debut novel that is the result of twenty-seven years of work by its author, Daikon is a gripping and powerfully moving saga that calls to mind such classics as Cold Mountain. It is set amid the chaos and despair of the world’s third largest city lying in ruins, its population starving and its leadership under escalating assault from without and within. Here is a haunting epic of love, survival, and impossible choices that introduces a singular new voice on the literary landscape.

Samuel Hawley is a Canadian writer who was born and raised in South Korea, as the son of Canadian missionaries, and taught English in Korea and Japan for nearly two decades. He is the author of the nonfiction book The Imjin War, the most comprehensive account in English of Japan’s 16th-century invasion of Korea and attempted conquest of China. He currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey. Daikon is his debut novel.

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