Hiroshima Notes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714530255 ISBN 13: 9780714530253

Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Synopsis

A moving statement from Japan's most celebrated living writer on the meaning of the bombing and its terrible legacy. A sensitive portrayal of the people of the city.-- WINNER Nobel Prize for Literature 1994, Prix Europalia 1989

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From the Back Cover:

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.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese

About this edition

• Publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006
• ISBN 10: 0714530255
• ISBN 13: 9780714530253
• Binding: Paperback