Lieutenant Lookeast, and other stories;

Literature & Fiction

Ibuse, Masuji

Short Stories & Anthologies

Secker and Warburg

Black Rain

The people of a Japanese village fight to maintain their humanity and tradition in the radioactive "rain" after Hiroshima

Genre Fiction

Bantam]

Demco Media

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.

Black Rain: A Novel

Bester, John

Kodansha USA

This collection of short stories displays Masuji Ibuse's style of satire to wry lyricism.

Salamander and Other Stories (Japan's Modern Writers)

Contemporary

Kodansha Amer Inc

Relates the stories of a geisha who recalls a youthful attachment to an important man, and a man who becomes instrumental in opening Japan to the outside world

Castaways: Two Short Novels

Liman, Anthony

Aylward, David

Kodansha USA Inc

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.

Black Rain (Japan's Modern Writers)

British & Irish

Kodansha International

Waves: Two short novels

Distributed in the United States by Kodansha International/USA, through Harper & Row

Based strictly on historical fact, the longer of these two stories is the tale of an illiterate boy from a remote fishing village in southern Japan, whose boat is blown off course in a storm in 1841. Rescued by a Yankee whaling ship, he is taken off to see a world far wider than his fellow countrymen could ever have imagined, and after years abroad--via the goldfields of California and Hawaii--he returns home in triumph.

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