A dimly burning wick [[electronic resource] ] : memoir from the ruins of Hiroshima / / by Sadako Teiko Okuda ; with Pamela Bea Wilson Vergun ; with contributions by Ronald Takaki ... [et al.] ; illustrated by Mia Nolting

• Autore: Okuda Sadako
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Algora Pub., 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/2521954092; B
• Soggetto topico: Atomic bomb victims - Japan - Hiroshima-shi
• Soggetto geografico: Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Personal narratives
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; Message from the Author upon the Publication of Her Book in English; In the Beginning; If There Had Been No War...; The Big Brother and Little Sister Who Waited; Where Has Yuuichi Gone?; Masako-chan, Who Couldn't See; The Boy Who Went Beddy-Bye with His Mommy; My Mother Wears Glasses Too; Best Friends Forever; Insanity and Greed; What Purpose Do Children Serve?; Waiting at the Foot of the Bridge; Bring Yuri-chan Too; As Long as the War Ends, It's All Right If We Lose; Even Now the Memories of That Time; Restoring Faith; But They Said They'd Only Be Gone One Night ; The Spirits That Haunt Us AllThe Years Before and After the Bombing; Remarks by a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee; Sadako's Experience and the Insights of Historical Research and Social Psychology; Remembering Hiroshima; A Lesson from Hiroshima; A Brief Summary of the Medical Impacts of Hiroshima; Understanding Hiroshima - Personal and Policy Lessons to Take into the Future; Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: As the United States debates launching another war in the Middle East, this passionate diary paired with a pondered discussion provides a reality check on how governments goad citizens into going to war and gives a forthright look at the hideous results for civilian casualties. Who bears the responsibility for decisions made in a "democracy" when our leaders or the media exaggerate the threat and downplay the harm our actions will cause?. In this agonizing diary, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima relates the horror of searching through smoldering rubble for signs of her family
• Titolo autorizzato: A dimly burning wick
• ISBN: 9786611793722; 1-281-79372-8; 0-87586-562-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782795803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II