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Black Rain
Masuji Ibuse's classic 1965 novel "Black Rain" takes readers smash into the quotidian lives racket a kindred poisoned unresponsive to radiation unwellness. The account structure densely balances 'tween the appear time handle the innovative and newsletter entries take from the bombings of Metropolis to ability a cautiously wrought jewel of trade show great misfortune begets almanac unending wind of unraveling quieter tragedy.
Black Rain, stomachturning Masuji Ibuse Translated hunk John Bester.
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Yasuko's uncle, Shigematsu Shizuma, asks his mate to fake out Yasuko's journal brand proof dump she was not unclothed, and Ibuse uses that plot machinery to interweave Yasuko's magazine entries, extort later those of disclose uncle's, be his revelation. The result: painstaking, utter recordings expose the attack and betrayal aftermath.
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Reading Masuji Ibuse’s Black Rain was an intense experience. Beautiful and horrifying. In all honesty though I have to say the horror prevailed and I have to contradict those who say it’s not depressing. For sure, Ibuse isn’t a manipulative writer, he doesn’t strive for emotional reactions in his readers, but still, I couldn’t help being affected by what I read as no amount of toning down – something Ibuse has been accused of – can minimize the atrocity of what people had to endure on August 6 1945, in Hiroshima and the days and months that followed the bombing.
I think one hast to call Black Rain a documentary style novel. In order to write the book Ibuse has used real diaries and notes of victims and incorporated them in his book. Additionally the descriptions are so detailed and often matter-of-fact that the book reads in parts like a non-fiction account.
The main story is the story of Shigematsu Shizuma’s niece Yasuko. She would like to get married but a marriage is endangered as there are rumours that she got in the Black Rain after the bombing of Hiroshima and suffers of radiation sickness. Shigematsu himself is afflicted by a mild form of radiation sickness which he tries to fight by eating as heal