- Published: 11 November 2025
- ISBN: 9780241780213
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $24.99
Grave of the Fireflies

















- Published: 11 November 2025
- ISBN: 9780241780213
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $24.99
A beautiful and sensitive translation, Grave of the Fireflies is monumentally heartbreaking. With the current state of the world and how suffering, malnourished children displaced by war are once again in the news, it has developed a profound resonance and relevance. I wish stories like this were unnecessary, but that is sadly not the case.
Tom Morton-Smith, playwright and writer of My Neighbour Totoro
Powerfully, in the earliest of pages, we discover how this story ends. A fragile, haunting novella and the source of Ghibli’s seminal Grave of the Fireflies, this book is a profoundly sad and precious gift. In this beautiful translation, its quiet power and unflinching honesty are preserved — a timeless reminder of a past that must never be forgotten
Phelim McDermott, director of My Neighbour Totoro
Powerfully, in the earliest of pages, we discover how this story ends. A fragile, haunting novella and the source of Ghibli’s seminal Grave of the Fireflies, this book is a profoundly sad and precious gift. In this beautiful translation, its quiet power and unflinching honesty are preserved — a timeless reminder of a past that must never be forgotten
Phelim McDermott