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Description for Black Rain
Paperback. Translator(s): Bester, John. Series: Japan's Modern Writers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 116 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Kodansha America, Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Japan's Modern Writers
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781568364179
SKU
V9781568364179
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Ref
99-15
About Masuji Ibuse
MASUJI IBUSE was born in Kamo, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1898. He majored in French at Waseda University and joined the School of Fine Arts to pursue a serious interest in painting. His first story, "Salamander," was published in 1923, when Ibuse was still a student, and by the early 1930s his eloquent use of dialect and his unique prose style ... Read more
Reviews for Black Rain
"This painful and very beautiful book gives two powerful messages—of drastic warning, yet also of affirmation of life." — John Hersey "The most successful book yet written about the greatest single horror inflicted by one group of men upon another." —Sunday Times "Immensely effective.... This is a book which must be read." —Books and ... Read more