Black Rain: A Novel (Japans Modern Writers)
by:
Masuji Ibuse (author)
Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet...
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Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life of Yasuko, on whom the black rain fell, is changed forever by periodic bouts of radiation sickness and the suspicion that her future children, too, may be affected. lbuse tempers the horror of his subject with the gentle humor for which he is famous. His sensitivity to the complex web of emotions in a traditional community torn asunder by this historical event has made Black Rain one of the most acclaimed treatments of the Hiroshima story.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780870113642 (087011364X)
ASIN: 087011364X
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
World War II,
Japan,
Japanese Literature,
Fiction,
Historical
This book started as a serialization in the magazine Shincho (Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd) in January 1965. Masuji Ibuse used historical records and the diaries of survivors to reconstruct the experience of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.Black Rain switches between the t...
I can see I'm not going to finish this. Perhaps in Japanese it would be worthwhile. A sad and genuine tale, though -- to be sure.
Boring. I did write a review and published it here:http://hubpages.com/hub/BLACK-RAIN-NUCLEAR-BOMBS-SMOKING-and-STUPID-WARS