| #495604 in Books | Grove Press | 1996-06-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.27 x.51 x5.49l,.51 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| An Honorable Authenticity of Survival|By Gio|The book "Hiroshima Notes" is a collection of essays, journalistic in conception and in style, written by Oe Kenzaburo in the mid-1960s after his first visit to Hiroshima to report on an international conference there. Each essay might stand alone as a piece of impressionistic reflection; together they are somewhat repetitive and s|From Publishers Weekly|Japanese novelist Oe, who won a Nobel Prize in 1994, wrote these searching essays between 1963 and 1965, when he made frequent visits to the rebuilt city of Hiroshima and interviewed survivors. The collection, now reissued on the 50th anni
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 des...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hiroshima Notes | Kenzaburo Oe. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
