Hiroshima notes
| ISBN: | 0714530077, 9780714530079 |
| OCLC Number: | 32549327 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Kenzaburo Oe |
| Translator: | Toshi Yonezawa, David L. Swain |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Marion Boyars, 1995; Grove Press, 1996 |
| Publication Place: | New York; New York |
| Japanese Copyright Year: | 1965 |
| English Publication Date: | 1995 |
| Abstract: | Hiroshima Notes is a moving statement from Japan's most celebrated living writer on the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy. Kenzaburo Oe's account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima - the young, the old, women and children - and the valiant efforts of the doctors who care for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years to come, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation wrought. In Hiroshima Notes, Oe offers a sensitive portrayal of the people of the city - the 'human face' in the midst of atomic destruction. The lives Oe describes and his insights into the nature of human dignity are an indictment of the Nuclear Age as powerful as the ruins in the Hiroshima Peace Park. |
| Subjects: | Atomic bomb victims, Japan, Hiroshima Atomic bomb, Physiological effect, Japan Hiroshima, Japan, History, Bombardment 1945 Kenzaburo Oe, Translations into English Nuclear weapons, Bombs |