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Masako's Story
Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m., when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, the Furuta family was living about one mile away from the
hypocenter. Five-year-old Kikuko, her mother, Masako, and her two
brothers barely escaped with their lives. However, their soldier father
was not so fortunate. Masako never talked about her family's
experiences on that day and the days following the bombing. Then one
day, Masako started to talk about what happened -- breaking a silence
of nearly fifty years.
Professor Otake, Masako's daughter, was a
five-year-old when the bomb destroyed her home and most of Hiroshima.
She, her mother and two brothers were injured but she remembered little
if anything about that day and those following. Only when Masako broke
her silence of five decades did Kikuko learn of her own close call with
death.
Masako's Story was first published in Japanese by Maruzen in 2003 (ISBN 4-89630-102-1) with the title "To America from Hiroshima" [Amerika e Hiroshima kara]. This English edition is an edited translation of the Japanese book.
Kikuko Otake graduated from Tsuda College in Tokyo.
She has an M.A. in Education from California State University at Los
Angeles. She is an award winning haiku and tanka poet.
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Publisher: ahadada books
Author: Kikuko Otake
ISBN: 978-0-9781414-6-2, Year published: July 2007
Pages: 100 Page size: 147x210mm
Bilingual: English and Japanese
Binding: Paperback, Base price: Yen 1,500++
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Information on the Japanese edition.
アメリカへ : ヒロシマから / ケイ大竹著. -- [カリフォルニア] : ケイ大竹, 2003.6 ; 東京 : 丸善出版サービスセンター (製作). -- 127p ; 20cm, ISBN 4-89630-102-1 : 762円; NDC(9): 911.56, JP: 20442941 |
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