Hiroshima (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Hersey
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1945-1985
- Setting: Hiroshima
- Principal Characters: Toshinki Sasaki, Hatsuyo Nakamura, Terufumi Sasaki, Masakazu Fujii, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Wilhelm Kleinsorge
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, New Journalism
- Subjects: 1940’s, War, Death or dying, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Disasters, Atomic bomb, Japan or Japanese people, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Hydrogen bomb, Radiation
- Locales: Hiroshima, Japan
Form and Content
Hiroshima is the account of six people—five Japanese and one German—who survived one of the twentieth century’s most cataclysmic and signal events, the dropping of the first atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945. Originally composed of four parts, the narrative follows the lives of these six from the first moment of “A Noiseless Flash” (part 1) to several months thereafter, when the desolated landscape has already begun to support new life, from flowers to “Panic Grass and Feverfew” (part 4). A fifth...
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