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Black Rain
by Masuji Ibuse
Hiroshima's survivors. What the bomb left invisible.
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you want to understand Hiroshima through the people who survived it and what survival cost them
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Shizuma is trying to find a husband for his niece Yasuko, who was in Hiroshima the day the bomb fell. The black rain that followed the blast has left her with radiation sickness — invisible, stigmatizing, rendering her unmarriageable in a society that has decided the hibakusha are contaminated. Ibuse reconstructs the bombing and its aftermath through Shizuma's diary and the testimonies he collects. The most human Japanese dispatch from inside the atomic age — not the politics of the bomb but the specific lives it contaminated. The novel that insisted on naming what Japan refused to look at directly.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Japan • East Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Japanese author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
