Hiroshima Notes
Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the...
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Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years that follow, reveals the horrific extent of the devastation. It is a heartrending portrait of a ravaged city the human face” in the midst of nuclear destruction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802134646 (0802134645)
ASIN: 802134645
Publish date: June 7th 1996
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Politics,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
I thought I might find this one easier to reach than "Who Will Teach Us...", but did not. It consists largely of Oe's reflections on the various incompetencies and hypocrasies of the Peace Movement in Japan c. 1964, along with reflections on the nobility of certain doctors. It is not that interestin...
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