2nd Revised Edition: December 28, 2011
by Kikuko Otake (Author)
On August 6, 1945, when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Furuta family was living 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 grim days following the bombing. Then one day, Masako started to talk about what happened—breaking a silence of nearly fifty years.
Written by Kikuko (Furuta) Otake, now a retired assistant professor of Japanese in the United States, Masako's story is a collection of prose-poetry, based on the true story of her family's tragedy. It is written with an "Objectivist" lineation similar in its understated power to Charles Reznikoff's Testimony. Kikuko Otake's Masako's Story is a powerful addition to the literature of the Atomic Bomb, and yet more evidence that we should all work together to stop the Nuclear madness.
Midwest Book Review, October 2012
Los Angeles Times book review, Sep. 30, 2007
"This little memoir in verse has a beautiful sweetness, reverence and sorrow that gives its readers Freedom to imagine the enormity, the horror of Hiroshima"- Los Angeles Times
Japan Times book review, Aug, 05, 2007
"Anyone who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it. . . here is a book to remember it by" - The Japan Times
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Masako's Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
Publisher : AuthorHouse; 2nd Revised edition (December 28, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 112 pages
ISBN-10 : 1463443382
ISBN-13 : 978-1463443382
Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.29 x 9 inches
US Presidents send letters to Kikuko Otake upon receipt of “Masako’s Story”