01 Feb / Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima by Toyofumi Ogura, translated by Kisaburo Murakami and Shigeru Fujii [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
Letters from Ogura to his young wife, who survived the actual bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, only to die of radiation sickness just days later. When the letters were originally published in Japan in 1948, they became the publishing world’s first-ever eyewitness record of an atomic bombing. Especially timely, poignant, and effective in light of recent world events.
Review: “New and Notable,” aMagazine: Inside Asian America, February/March 2002
Readers: Adult
Published: 2001 (United States)
By in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation
Tags > aMagazine: Inside Asian America, BookDragon, Death, Family, Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic blasts, Kisaburo Murakami, Letters from the End of the World: A Firsthand Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima, Love, Shigeru Fujii, Toyofumi Ogura, War