Passport To Hiroshima by Yorie Kano
...like nothing else you will read. Tracy Riva Reviews...couldn't stop reading. Cathrine Lamb, The Chipley PaperFrom the memories of survivors... a personal and historic account of life before and after the atom bomb.
Toshiharu Kano was a three month old unborn son when the United States dropped the nuclear bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima, Japan. He and his sister, Yorie, tell their family's story.Monday morning, August 6, 1945: A clear blue sky stretched over Hiroshima City. The smell of breakfast drifted through the streets as neighborhoods came alive with chatter. Birds sang, dogs barked, cats stretched in the shade of trees and a United States B-29 Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, headed for the Ota River prepared to drop the first nuclear bomb used in warfare.
Through the window of his bedroom, Colonel Kubota saw the bomb fall from the plane. He waited, ready to assess the damage and take control of the situation. The weapon of mass destruction grew larger and brighter as his heart pounded out the seconds to detonation. seven... six...
Major Toshiyuki Nekomoto was one step outside the railroad overpass on the road to the his barracks. High school girls were a few yards beyond the shelter of the bridge, walking in the opposite direction. five... four...
Inside the Nekomoto home on Nishi Hakushima Street, half a mile from the bomber's target, Toshiyuki's wife, Shizue, held Toshio, breastfeeding her hungry boy. His crying had delayed her going outside to wash the laundry. Nearby, daughter Yorie played mommy with a doll strapped onto her back with an Obi. Inside Shizue beat the new heart of her three month fetus.
Shizue looked up when she heard the dreaded drone of the B-29 bomber and prayed it would pass over the city as the others had. But the sound of the engine grew stronger. She stopped breathing. The baby in her womb fluttered like a fish thrown into a dry bucket. Neighborhood dogs exploded into a barking frenzy; silencing the chirping of birds, the incessant chirr of cicadas and a mother's heart ticking off the last seconds of promises tomorrow would never keep.
three... two...
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781511992305 |
| ISBN 10 | 1511992301 |
| Title | Passport To Hiroshima |
| Author | Yorie Kano |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Year published | 2015-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 380 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |