Maki Kashimada's work is a fascinating exploration of the sources of our own cruelty and our level of individual agency when healing from trauma.
Generational trauma — the psychological and physiological effects experienced by subsequent generations of those who first experienced trauma — has become one of the most resonant buzzwords of our time, ubiquitous in its usage and association to various art forms in the past few years.
The source of this book's historical trauma is one of the deadliest and most consequential events of the 20th century, the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The 6,000 degrees referenced in the title was the temperature reached on the ground after the bombs hit. The heroine of Kashimada's novel is a housewife who once aspired to be a writer. She lives an ordinary life with a"kind and considerate" husband and son.
"Your face looks terrible. Wounded. The woman stared into the youth's eyes. They seemed to be crying out that she had violated him against his will. No, the youth said. I was just surprised. I've never had a woman make love to me like that before...I even forgot about my own sense of inferiority." Despite her initial cruelty towards her young lover, the woman can't help but develop feelings for him. In this moving passage, the youth tells her how he was bullied by the girls during swimming lessons at school.
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