Read the Prologue, The Yet Unknowing World, and Veiled Birds (chapters 1-4).
Content Summary for Teachers
Prologue
In the Prologue, an unknown man is imprisoned and forced to strip naked. He knows that he will be soon forced to wear an orange jumpsuit.
The Yet Unknowing World
The first section of the novel takes place in Nagasaki on the day the US military dropped the atomic bomb on the city. The story follows Konrad Weiss, a German living in Nagasaki, and Hiroko Tanaka, a Japanese woman who worked as a German translator until recently, when she was forced to work in a munitions factory. The two are in a romantic relationship. They are both thinking about how the war has changed...
