The Children of Hiroshima
the true story of how i searched for my family in the ruins of the city
$29.29
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2026
Summary
Hiroshima’s Children: A Diary of Loss and Hope
The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at me intensely. With great effort I stood up and tested to see if I could walk with my injured foot. When I did, he came to stand even closer to me and, without saying a word, grabbed my little finger very tightly.
Sadako Teiko Okuda was living in Osaki-shimo, an island off the mainland of Japan, when the bomb hit Hiroshima on the 6th …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800963009 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800963009 |
| Author: | Sadako Teiko Okuda |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Monoray |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 179g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
As the hibakusha generation begins to disappear, Sadako Okuda’s memoir of Hiroshima at Ground Zero in the wake of the atomic bomb is a clarion call to remember the human cost of the final acts of the Pacific War. * Mark Selden *A Dimly Burning Wick should be required reading in every school. It begs the audience to consider the innocents caught in the trajectory of war…. devoid of hatred yet brimming with sadness, it crystallizes the importance of peace. * Jo-Ann Moss, Editor, Raving Dove Literary Journal *
About The Author
Sadako Teiko Okuda
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1914, Okuda was teaching sewing on a small island some 35 miles off Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Even from that distance, both her sight and hearing on her right side were permanently damaged. From 1960 and until her retirement, she taught home economics at a non-traditional high school in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
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