Hiroshima

ISBN-13: 9780141041865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

John Hersey

Opis

This work offers an account of six men and women who survived the effects of Hiroshima in 1945, despite all the odds. It provides a devastating picture of the long-term effects of one very small bomb.

O autorze

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.