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Hiroshima Notes

Hiroshima Notes

Hiroshima Notes Hardcover - 2000

by Kenzaburo Oe

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Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe persistently confronts the hellish dimensions of contemporary life with keen and balanced grasp of personal concerns and social realities. This is his moving statement on the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing. Its universal message, developed by Oe over a number of essays, concerns the moral and ethical implications of nuclear war.

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Use 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.

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  • Title Hiroshima Notes
  • Author Kenzaburo Oe
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First U.S. Editi
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, New York
  • Date 2000-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # APM0039
  • ISBN 9780714530079 / 0714530077
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 5.52 x 0.79 in (22.20 x 14.02 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History -, Atomic bomb victims - Japan - Hiroshima-shi
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95020015
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

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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.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/1995, Page 772
  • Library Journal, 07/01/1995, Page 99
  • New York Times, 07/30/1995, Page 13
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/19/1995, Page 43
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