Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard
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â[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.ââThe Wall Street Journal
âA devastating read that highlights manâs capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.ââSan Francisco Chronicle
âA poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bombâs enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the bookâs biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks in the decades since 1945.â âThe New Yorker
The enduring impact of a nuclear bomb, told through the stories of those who survived: necessary reading as the threat of nuclear war emerges again.
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On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japanâs southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured.
Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation. Susan Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha (âbomb-affected peopleâ) and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together dramatic eyewitness accounts with searing analysis of the policies of censorship and denial that colored much of what was reported about the bombing both in the United States and Japan.
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A gripping narrative of human resilience, Nagasaki will help shape public discussion and debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.
âA devastating read that highlights manâs capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.ââSan Francisco Chronicle
âA poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bombâs enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the bookâs biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks in the decades since 1945.â âThe New Yorker
The enduring impact of a nuclear bomb, told through the stories of those who survived: necessary reading as the threat of nuclear war emerges again.
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On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japanâs southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured.
Nagasaki takes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation. Susan Southard has spent years interviewing hibakusha (âbomb-affected peopleâ) and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together dramatic eyewitness accounts with searing analysis of the policies of censorship and denial that colored much of what was reported about the bombing both in the United States and Japan.
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A gripping narrative of human resilience, Nagasaki will help shape public discussion and debate over one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.
WINNER of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
FINALIST for the Ridenhour Book Prize âĸ Chautauqua Prize âĸ William Saroyan International Prize for Writing âĸ PEN Center USA Literary AwardÂ
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Economist âĸ The Washington Post âĸ American Library Association âĸ Kirkus Reviews
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Susan Southard holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and was a nonfiction fellow at the Norman Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Southardâs work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Laphamâs Quarterly. She has taught nonfiction classes at Arizona State Universityâs Piper Writers Studio and the University of Georgia, and directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside Phoenix. Southard is the founder and artistic director of Essential Theatre.
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