Letters from the End of the World – read online – 9784770027764

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Letters from the End of the World
A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima
by Toyofumi Ogura, Kisaburo Murakami, Shigeru Fujii

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• Language: english
• Publisher: Kodansha
• ISBN: 9784770027764 (4770027761)
• Release date: November 9, 2001
• Genres: japan, history
• Author: Toyofumi Ogura, Kisaburo Murakami, Shigeru Fujii
• Format: paperback, 198 pages

About The Book

A love story in the form of letters to the author’s young wife, who died soon after the bombing of Hiroshima.

More than fifty years after the Second World War, the scars left by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima refuse to heal. This compelling account of one man’s experience gives a human face to the events of August 6, 1945.

For a week after the bombing, the author, who was an assistant professor at Hiroshima University, wandered the decimated streets of the city, searching for his wife and his youngest son. He finally located them, but his wife died just days later. Grief-stricken, the author wrote her a series of letters over the next year outlining the things he had seen and heard during her last days on earth. In 1948, the letters became the first eyewitness account of an atomic bombing ever published.

This powerful record shows how one family’s future was altered in an instant. Comprised of correspondence, diary entries and drawings, Letters from the End of the World presents the events surrounding the close of World War II in terms so personal they will not soon be forgotten.

«By the time we reach the account of Fumiyo’s horrifying death on Aug. 20, which we see from both Ogura’s perspective and that of his 11-year-old daugther, Kazuko, who kept a diary, the sadness and anger that have been building up through the whole book are almost unbearable… The uncompromising anger toward Japan’s military leaders that is expressed throughout is striking and unusual.»

Elizabeth Ward, The Japan Times

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