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Black Rain

Published
Jun 1985
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General Fiction General Fiction
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304

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Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life of Yasuko, on whom the black rain fell, is changed forever by periodic bouts of radiation sickness and the suspicion that her future children, too, may be affected.

lbuse tempers the horror of his subject with the gentle humor for which he is famous. His sensitivity to the complex web of emotions in a traditional community torn asunder by this historical event has made Black Rain one of the most acclaimed treatments of the Hiroshima story.

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First Edition Jun 1985 Bantam ISBN 0553249886
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Oct 1988 Kodansha International ISBN 087011364X
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Aug 2012 Kodansha International ISBN 1568364172
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Jan 1971 Secker & Warburg ISBN 0436217759
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Jan 1988 Turtleback Books ISBN 0606200703
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Oct 1988 Kodansha USA ISBN B003YL3POA
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Aug 2010 Kodansha International ISBN 4770050100
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