The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock Canada: HarperFlamingo, Hdb ISBN 0002255243; USA: Knopf, Hdb ISBN 0375413022; UK: Bloomsbury, Hdb ISBN 0747553521; Australia: Bloomsbury, Hdb ISBN 0747557179 A sensitively told, powerful anti-war novel paralleling the permanently scarred lives of Emiko Amai, a Japanese-American filmmaker, whose entire family was killed in the bombing of Hiroshima, of Anton Böll, a morally torn and emotionally crippled scientist, who worked on the development of the bomb at Los Alamos, and of Böll's neglected wife Sophie. Read the review by Barbara Bundy