Ebook: Ground zero, Nagasaki : stories
Author: Seirai Yūichi, Warham Paul
- Tags: Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-ken -- Fiction. FICTION -- General. Atomic bomb victims. Japan -- Nagasaki-ken.
- Series: Weatherhead books on Asia
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: Japan--Nagasaki-ken
- Language: English, Japanese
- epub
Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw an unflinching portrait of the A-bomb's horrific, ongoing trauma. Whether they experienced the attack directly or have merely heard about it from survivors, many of the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in the West. For hundreds of Read more...
Abstract: Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw an unflinching portrait of the A-bomb's horrific, ongoing trauma. Whether they experienced the attack directly or have merely heard about it from survivors, many of the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in the West. For hundreds of years, Christianity was suppressed in Nagasaki, but the religion enjoyed a revival in modern times. The Urakami Cathedral, the center of Japanese Christian life, stood at ground zero o