Hiroshima Maidens, Rodney Barker
Hiroshima Maidens, Rodney Barker
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Hiroshima Maidens

Author: Rodney Barker

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/06/2020


Synopsis

Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII.

But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged—twenty-five courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic. Victims of the atomic blast that ushered in the Nuclear Age, these women were brought to the United States in 1955, where they underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the ravages of the bomb. Schoolgirls when the bomb destroyed their futures, they began to remake their lives and re-create themselves.

This is the compassionate, often bittersweet chronicle of the Hiroshima Maidens.

It follows their lives from the terrifying moments of the detonation of the bomb, through their years as outcasts in their own country, to their not always idyllic stay in America, and on to their lives since—some tragic, some heroic, some affectingly ordinary.

About Rodney Barker

Rodney Barker has been an editor, an investigative reporter, and a feature writer for a wide variety of regional and national magazines. In 1979 he was one of three American journalists awarded travel grants to Japan to write about Hiroshima; his resulting reportage, which was published in the Denver Post, reawakened his involvement with the Hiroshima Maidens, two of whom had stayed with his family when he was a child.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on February 03, 2019

This book is the true story of 24 young Japanese women who were caught in the blast of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and how they came to the U.S. to get treatment for the horrendous scars they had suffered on their faces, necks, and arms. I had never really thought about the people of Hiroshima afte......more

Goodreads review by lbert buro on July 01, 2016

Fantastic I could not put this book down I finished it in 8hrs, I'm a military historian I know all about the military aspects of the bombings I've also read about the lives of survivors,but I never heard of the Hiroshima Maidens,what a story I'm a big bike guy but it made me cry I was born a few mon......more

Goodreads review by Karen on February 18, 2017

As someone who lived in Los Alamos, where the atomic bomb was created, I am always curious about "the rest of the story". Well written, compassionate book. Two things in this book are particularly memorable. The first person accounts of witnessing the explosion are searing (no pun intended). It was......more