Hiroshima is the story of six people-a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest-who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8: 15 a. m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Biografie
John Hersey, geboren 1914 in Tientsin (China), ist ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er arbeitete als Sekretär in St. Lewis, als Journalist und als Kriegskorrespondent in Italien, Polen, der UdSSR und Japan. Er veröffentlichte bereits zahlreiche Dokumentarromane.
