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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.
- Sales Rank: #1943454 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Bantam
- Published on: 1985-06-01
- Released on: 1985-06-01
- Original language: Japanese
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 304 pages
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Review
.]"This painful and very beautiful book gives two powerful messages-of drastic warning, yet also of affirmation of life." - John Hersey
"The most successful book yet written about the greatest single horror inflicted by one group of men upon another." -Sunday Times
"Immensely effective.... This is a book which must be read." -Books and Bookmen
"I would recommend Black Rain to every reader, even the squeamish." -Spectator
"Its subtle ironies and noble, unsentimental pity are a reminder of the strengths of Japanese fiction." -New Statesman
Language Notes
Text: English, Japanese (translation)
About the Author
MASUJI IBUSE was born in Kamo, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1898. He majored in French at Waseda University and joined the School of Fine Arts to pursue a serious interest in painting. His first story, "Salamander," was published in 1923, when Ibuse was still a student, and by the early 1930s his eloquent use of dialect and his unique prose style had established him as one of the leading figures in the Japanese literary world. In the years since 1938 he has been awarded almost every literary prize in Japan, and on the publication of Black Rain (1966) Ibuse was presented with both the Cultural Medal and Japan's highest literary award, the Noma Prize. Black Rain has been translated into eleven foreign languages.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Phenomenology of destruction
By H. Schneider
Every once in a while I find a book that surprises me.
I had bought Ibuse's Black Rain upon recommendation from the remarkable Kenzaburo Oe. I expected something like a documentary novel about Hiroshima, maybe like John Hersey's book about that subject.
What I found is a unique work of art on top of the documentary. We have here a complete tale of life in war before the bomb and in peace after the bomb. Not to forget the transition phase of uncertainty and disorientation.
The narration is set a few years after August 6, 1945. A family of survivors lives a simple life of daily routines and remembrances. The man in the house had written a diary on the day of the bomb and the following days. He copies the original text and adds further memories. He asks his wife to add a text on food during the war. The act of writing is as much a subject as the act of living in the presence and remembering the life of the past. The writing is done for the sake of a local library which had asked for it.
The real focus of human interest is not the mass killing. We can't be moved, really, by hundreds of thousands. We need individuals. We have the small family of 3. We have Yasuko, the main man's niece, who lives with uncle and aunt, and has lived there during the bombing. She is young and attractive and suspect. Does she have radiation disease? Can she bear a son? Can one marry her? The uncle's heart is near breaking point. Nobody knows the truth. Rumors have the girl at totally wrong places, but knowledge of the right places would not guarantee health.
The novel delves into amazing detail. It is a cook book for famine times. It gives recipes for aquaculture under monopoly administration. It tells us how a man with radiation sickness can spend his time productively without overexertion.
The diary describes the phenomena of the bomb's effects (the clouds, the light, the fires, the injuries, the corpses, the decomposition etc) with attention to much detail, but with total ignorance about the kind of weapon that has been used. Hindsight does not blur this. This uncertainty is a main driver of the tale.
We learn about conflicts between bureaucracy, military and civilians. We watch the total collapse of organization after the bomb, but we see no descent into barbarity by the survivors. Decency and civility are maintained. Well, apart from some minor transgressions like theft of provisions. And yet: it takes a century, thinks the narrator, to repair the moral damage done to the population in an area badly ravaged by war.
(This simple truth seems easily forgotten by contemporary invaders of foreign countries.)
What to do with corpses of people who die of their injuries and diseases after the bomb? Death certificates? Burials? Our narrator gets conscripted as temporary scripture reader at funerals. He learns to appreciate the Buddhist texts that have been given to him by a monk for the purpose. He memorizes the Sermon on Mortality.
A superb early scene: on the morning of the bomb, help units are dispatched into town; the headman sees them off with patriotic bombast about spirit of war and keeping their bamboo spears as symbols; on the way, they make a lunch break at a farm house; during the break they hear a speech on the radio, We do not learn what the speech is, but the men drop their spears when they continue their march.
How can a book with this subject avoid melodrama, monotony, sentimentality, and all the other pitfalls of the subject? That's what the translator asks in his introduction.
Good question. Ibuse did it. The tone and sense of humor is the greatest surprise in this book. A miracle of counter-intuitive writing.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Kindle version of Black Rain
By Raven
This is the most beautiful and most sad thing I've ever read. I literally had no idea.
Thankfully, the author does not preach about the evils of what happened. Rather, Black Rain simply describes what it was like for a few of the survivors of Hiroshima. It includes the events of that black day in 1945, but also talks about what happened to the people next; how their lives were effected by the radiation sickness and even worse. The stigma of being at Hiroshima ruined their future. You would think they had suffered enough without the addition of such harmful gossip from their fellow countrymen.
It's very hard to see where the lines between fiction and non-fiction are in this book, but to me, that's what makes it so great.
The kindle version has an interactive table of contents, and one can easily navigate between the chapters using the 5-way controller.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
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By Kadijah
This was a book that didn't want to make me vomit really, I couldn't envision a lot of the things like I usually do when I read books, but I think I was sub consciously trying not to as this was a touchy topic for me. It took me tree days to finish this book I think because I kept looking for things regarding the bombings and getting into debates whether or not it was true, etc; I really liked this book, made me cry especially when children were mentioned, I wish I knew what happened with Yasuko, the ending SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER made it seem as if she died, so left to my imaginative devices I just kept her alive. Great book Masuji-dono.
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