- Book Topics
- Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Reactors
- Kori 1
- South Korea
- Holyhead
- Wylfa Reactor
- Linkou
- Fukushima
- Enrico Fermi breeder reactor
- Three Mile Island
- Fermi 2
- Chernobyl
- Detroit Edison
Generator
In this first novel by Korean/Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud, a woman’s search for her father—a former UK engineer at international nuclear power facilities— provides the backdrop to a compelling personal journey that takes the reader not only through her turbulent family history, but explores the story of nuclear power generation from its origins in the post-WWII era to the present. With richly descriptive vignettes of dormant or abandoned nuclear power sites, from Taiwan to Wales to the midwestern United States, the narrator reimagines her father’s life while on an emotional and physical journey in search of her own identity and sense of belonging in the world.
- Book Topics
- Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Reactors
- Kori 1
- South Korea
- Holyhead
- Wylfa Reactor
- Linkou
- Fukushima
- Enrico Fermi breeder reactor
- Three Mile Island
- Fermi 2
- Chernobyl
- Detroit Edison
Reviews and Comments
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A radiant autofiction.
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Generator, provides a deeply meditative examination of identity–‘relative, if not fluid’–provocatively conflating nuclear power with biological ancestry.
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Generator is an enthralling, genre-bending novella that bridges the past and future, the personal and global, in its dual mission to understand nuclear power and an unknown progenitor.
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Gremaud weaves Generator into a sensitive, brilliant, and poetic tale. A gem!
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The quest for an absent ‘generator’ intersects with the epic tale of nuclear power plants in a novel that weaves together the personal and the sociological. A brilliant tale filled with emotion and anger…
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A remarkable, critical, reflective work in which factual and biographical elements intersect. There is a subtlety here that lends her prose its own beautiful character.