An earthquake unnerves tokyo on march 11, 2011, triggering the fukushima nuclear disasterand a tectonic stirring of the collective past. Herseys extraordinary, gripping book tells the personal stories of six. Survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki atomic heritage foundation. Consecuencias del bombardeo en hiroshima y nagasaki.
This book, john herseys journalistic masterpiece, tells what. The last train from hiroshima and millions of other books are. Within the first half second of the atomic flash, images of plants, people. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Terufumi sasaki, father wilhelm kleinsorge, toshiko sasaki, dr. Hiroshima is a 1946 book by pulitzer prizewinning author john hersey. Hiroshima was a fanshaped city, lying mostly on the six islands. That summer william shawn, executive director of the new yorker, summoned reporter john hersey to write a story that illustrated the human effects of the atomic bomb. Read a plot overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter summary and analysis. It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of the new journalism, in which the storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to nonfiction reporting the work was originally published in the new yorker, which had planned to run it. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima.