Started: 7/11/07
Finished: 7/16/07
Pages: 300
Year: 1969
Genre: Literature
Grade: B-
Reason for reading: grabbed it off the TBR shelf (got it from a bookbox)
Blurb (from back cover): "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. Ibuse 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 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.
"Ibuse 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 even has made Black Rain one of the most acclaimed treatments of the Hiroshima story."
Opinion: Kinda confusing while reading it to determine which narrator was speaking. Interesting story overall.
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