Hiroshima
$30.04
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2009
Summary
THE PENGUIN MAGNUM COLLECTION
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heart-rending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. He added a further chapter when, forty years later, he returned to Hiroshima to discover how the same six peopl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141041865 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141041862 |
| Author: | John Hersey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Magnum Collection |
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Critics Review
‘To this day nothing tells better the horror of Hiroshima … One of the most powerful writers of modern times’ Washington Post ‘A vision of hell … its terrible images are reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno’ The Times
About The Author
John Hersey
John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914, and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Clare College, Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked for several years as a journalist. He published seventeen works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Bell for Adano. Besides Hiroshima which was first published in 1946, he wrote six books of essays and reportage. He died in 1993.
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