The bells of Nagasaki
Nagai, Takashi, 1908-19512025
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On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them. Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city's university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own injuries and losses, their own bone-chilling fears for the future, they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of the dying. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them, one by one. Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi's record, written from his sickbed, a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.
Main title:
The bells of Nagasaki / Takashi Nagai ; translated from the Japanese by William Johnston ; with an introduction by Richard Lloyd Parry.
Author:
Nagai, Takashi, 1908-1951, authorJohnston, William, 1925-2010, translatorLloyd Parry, Richard, writer of introduction
Work:
Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2025.©1985
Collation:
xxviii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes:
First published as "Nagasaki no kane" by Hibiya Publisher in 1949.Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781529952605 (hardback)
Dewey class:
940.5425
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
489360