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When the first atom bomb was dropped on 6 August 1945, it devastated a great city and knocked Japan out of the war.
John Hersey, the distinguished American writer, was sent nine months later to Hiroshima to find out in human and not scientific terms,what had happened. Little over a year after the event his account appeared in the New Yorker (occupying a complete issue) and as a Penguin.
Hersey's unforgettable narrative, which is built round the experiences of six survivors in a city where some 100,000 men, women and children were killed, is now a Penguin Modern Classic.
It supplies an epitaph to those who died in one of history’s most catastrophic events and a grave warning to the present and the future.
Kindly head over to the Kuhiro Class Reading Circle Google Classroom to access the text. Looking forward to hearing different perspectives on the text here in Chautara.