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Hiroshima Author: Richard H. Minear

ISBN: 9780691008370 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 416 Published: 17 January 1990 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 14.0 x 2.54 Description:

"I'll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you. . . . I'll tell you the real story--I swear I will."--from "Little One" by Toge Sankichi

Three Japanese authors of note--Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi--survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima only to shoulder an appalling burden: bearing witness to ultimate horror. Between 1945 and 1952, in prose and in poetry, they published the premier first-person accounts of the atomic holocaust. Forty-five years have passed since August 6, 1945, yet this volume contains the first complete English translation of Hara's "Summer Flowers," the first English translation of Ota's "City of Corpses," and a new translation of Toge's "Poems of the Atomic Bomb." No reader will emerge unchanged from reading these works. Different from each other in their politics, their writing, and their styles of life and death, Hara, Ota, and Toge were alike in feeling compelled to set down in writing what they experienced. Within forty-eight hours of August 6, before fleeing the city for shelter in the hills west of Hiroshima, Hara jotted down this note: "Miraculous...

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