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Trinity, Trinity, Trinity
- Author
- Erika Kobayashi
- Narrator
- Emily Woo Zeller
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 June 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history of three generations of Japanese women
Nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past. Across the country, the elderly begin to hear voices emanating from black stones, compelling them to behave in strange and unpredictable ways. The voices are a symptom of a disease called “Trinity.”
As details about the disease come to light, we encounter a thread of linked histories—Prometheus stealing fire from the gods, the discovery of radiation, the nuclear arms race, the subsequent birth of nuclear energy, and the disaster in Fukushima. The threads linking these events begins to unravel in the lead-up to a terrorist attack at the Japan National Olympic Stadium.
A work of speculative fiction reckoning with the consequences of the past and continued effects of nuclear power, Trinity, Trinity, Trinity follows the lives of three generations of women as they grapple with the legacy of mankind’s quest for light and power.
Critics Review
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“This compelling novel…examines the shifting sands of memory and interconnected identity in a fluid landscape shaped by nuclear radiation, social media, and social connection. Highly recommended."
Library Journal (starred review)
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“Emily Woo Zeller superbly narrates this imaginative reflection on Japanese citizens and their relationship with radiation. Zeller’s performance is transcendent…She draws precise portraits of the mostly unnamed characters and makes even the fragmented plot memorable listening.”
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“A luminous and penetrating history of our shared present.”
Mark Seltzer, author of The Official World
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“Kobayashi gathers world-historical, feminist, and ecological yarns to crochet a web of ‘terrorist’ intrigue…Fast-paced, funny, and thrillingly conceptual.”
Margherita Long, author of Care, Kin, Crackup
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"Explores the nuclear trauma of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries…A gripping narrative that this reader could not put down.”
Janice Carole Brown, author of Tarnished Words
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Details
- Author
- Erika Kobayashi
- Narrator
- Emily Woo Zeller
- Duration
- 5 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200959822
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fantasy, Thriller / suspense fiction, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Alternative history fiction
Synopsis
A literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history of three generations of Japanese womenNine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past. Across the country, the elderly begin to hear voices emanating from black stones, compelling them to behave in strange and unpredictable ways. The voices are a symptom of a disease called “Trinity.”As details about the disease come to light, we encounter a thread of linked histories—Prometheus stealing fire from the gods, the discovery of radiation, the nuclear arms race, the subsequent birth of nuclear energy, and the disaster in Fukushima. The threads linking these events begins to unravel in the lead-up to a terrorist attack at the Japan National Olympic Stadium. A work of speculative fiction reckoning with the consequences of the past and continued effects of nuclear power, Trinity, Trinity, Trinity follows the lives of three generations of women as they grapple with the legacy of mankind’s quest for light and power.
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