A dimly burning wick : memoir from the ruins of Hiroshima / by Sadako Teiko Okuda ; with Pamela Bea Wilson Vergun ; with contributions by Ronald Takaki ... [et al.] ; illustrated by Mia Nolting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okuda, Sadako.

Standardized Title:

Honogurai tōshin o kesu koto naku. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Atomic bomb victims.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

Okuda, Sadako.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the United States debates launching another war in the Middle East, this passionate diary paired with a pondered discussion provides a reality check on how governments goad citizens into going to war and gives a forthright look at the hideous results for civilian casualties. Who bears the responsibility for decisions made in a "democracy" when our leaders or the media exaggerate the threat and downplay the harm our actions will cause?. In this agonizing diary, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima relates the horror of searching through smoldering rubble for signs of her family

Contents:

Foreword; Message from the Author upon the Publication of Her Book in English; In the Beginning; If There Had Been No War...; The Big Brother and Little Sister Who Waited; Where Has Yuuichi Gone?; Masako-chan, Who Couldn't See; The Boy Who Went Beddy-Bye with His Mommy; My Mother Wears Glasses Too; Best Friends Forever; Insanity and Greed; What Purpose Do Children Serve?; Waiting at the Foot of the Bridge; Bring Yuri-chan Too; As Long as the War Ends, It's All Right If We Lose; Even Now the Memories of That Time; Restoring Faith; But They Said They'd Only Be Gone One Night

The Spirits That Haunt Us AllThe Years Before and After the Bombing; Remarks by a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee; Sadako's Experience and the Insights of Historical Research and Social Psychology; Remembering Hiroshima; A Lesson from Hiroshima; A Brief Summary of the Medical Impacts of Hiroshima; Understanding Hiroshima - Personal and Policy Lessons to Take into the Future; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611793722

1-281-79372-8

0-87586-562-3

OCLC:

437224757