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Hiroshima = Hiroshima Paperback - 2009

by John Hersey

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Hiroshima by John Hersey tells the account of six survivors covering the time before, during and after the U.S. bombing of Japan in World War II. Hersey chronicles the horrors of the event in simple, graphic detail in what was originally published as a 31,000 word article in New Yorker magazine in 1946. Just a few months later, Alfred A. Knopf printed it in book form.

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La crnica sobre seis supervivientes de Hiroshima que se convirti en un gran clsico del periodismo.

Toda persona que sepa leer, debera leer este libro. Saturday Review of Literature.

El verano de 1945, William Shawn, director ejecutivo de The New Yorker, habl con el reportero John Hersey sobre la idea de publicar un relato que ilustrara la dimensin humana de los efectos de la bomba atmica en Hiroshima, pues le causaba estupor comprobar que, pese a la gran cantidad de informacin sobre la bomba que reciban, se estaba ignorando lo que realmente haba ocurrido en Hiroshima.

El reportero acept el encargo. Hershey viaj a Hiroshima para investigar y entrevistar a varios supervivientes de la explosin de la bomba atmica, lanzada el 6 de agosto de 1945, y decidi que el retrato lo conformaran seis testimonios: una oficinista, Toshiko Sasaki; un mdico, el Dr. Masakazu Fuji; una viuda a cargo de sus tres hijos pequeos, Hatsuyo Nakamura; un misionero alemn, el padre Wilhem Kleinsorge; un joven cirujano, el Dr. Terufumi Sasaki y un pastor metodista, el reverendo Kiyoshi Tanimoto.

La publicacin de Hiroshima trajo consigo una enorme conmocin.

El reportaje se public en una edicin monotemtica de The New Yorker el 31 de agosto de 1946. La revista se agot inmediatamente y de todo el mundo lleg una avalancha de peticiones de reimpresin.

Su difusin corri como la plvora y en pocos meses la editorial Alfred A. Knopf lo public como libro, permitiendo que al ao siguiente ya se hubiera traducido y publicado prcticamente en todo el mundo.

En la actualidad Hiroshima lleva vendidos ms de un milln de ejemplares y es un referente del periodismo de investigacin y un clsico de la literatura de guerra. Es el nico artculo, entre los millares de textos escritos sobre la bomba atmica, que describe cmo era la vida para las personas que haban sobrevivido a un ataque nuclear.

Y est considerado como el ms famoso artculo de revista jams publicado .

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"The accounts of six Hiroshima survivors that became a great journalism classic. Anyone who can read should read this book." - Saturday Review of Literature

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city.

That summer William Shawn, executive director of The New Yorker, summoned reporter John Hersey to write a story that illustrated the human effects of the atomic bomb. He accepted the assignment, then traveled to Hiroshima. This is his journalistic masterpiece that tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of six survivors, this timeless, powerful, and compassionate document has become a classic that stirs the conscience of humanity.

The report was published in a special edition of The New Yorker on August 31, 1946, and the magazine was sold out immediately. The news of that edition and its content spread like wildfire, and in a few months publisher Alfred A. Knopf published it as a book. It is considered "the most famous magazine article ever published."

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Published simultaneously in both blue and green cloth, first editions can be identified by the presence of the words "First Edition" on the copyright page, with no additional statement of printing. 

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  • Title Hiroshima = Hiroshima
  • Author John Hersey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Tra
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Debolsillo, Spain
  • Publication date 2009-04
  • ISBN 9788483468548 / 8483468549
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 4.95 x 0.6 in (19.05 x 12.57 x 1.52 cm)
  • Reading level 1190
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Hiroshima-shi, Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

John Hersey (1914-1993) es considerado uno de los periodistas ms brillantes de su generacin. Sus artculos aparecieron en las prestigiosas revistas Time, para la que trabaj como corresponsal de guerra, y The New Yorker. De su trayectoria como novelista destaca la obtencin del Premio Pulitzer en 1945.

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