Publisher's Synopsis
Hiroshima Notes is a moving statement on the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing and its terible legacy from one of Japan's most celebrated living writers. Kenzaburo Oe's account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of the doctors who care for them. Both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years to come he reveals the horrific extent of the devastation wrought. Oe offers a sensitive portrayal of the people in the city - the human face in the midst of atomic destruction. The lives Oe describes and his insights into the nature of human dignity are an indictment of the Nuclear Age as powerful as the ruins in the Hiroshima Peace Park.
