One Sunny Day
A Child's Memories of Hiroshima
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- 220 pages
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"Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home..". Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives.
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One Sunny Day, Studs Terkel, Hideko Tamura Snider
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- Released
- 1996
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- One Sunny Day
- Subtitle
- A Child's Memories of Hiroshima
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Studs Terkel, Hideko Tamura Snider
- Publisher
- Open Court
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 220
- ISBN10
- 0812693272
- ISBN13
- 9780812693270
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Historical Themes, USA, Medicine, Children, World War II, Professional Literature, Japan, Asia, Philosophers
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- "Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home..". Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives.