Black Rain (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Eileen M’s request to combine 14 books, including Black Rain, 10 hours ago.

Eileen M submitted a request to combine 14 books, including Black Rain, 2 days ago.

Shelfari edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Black Rain 9 days ago.

• Added: Our poor niece can't get married because the neighbors all think she has radiation sickness!

Shelfari edited the description of Black Rain Sunday, August 2 2009.

• 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. lbuse 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 of 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. lbuse 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 event has made Black Rain one of the most acclaimed treatments of the Hiroshima story.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Black Rain Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Masuji Ibuse: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Black Rain Friday, July 17 2009.

• When I was first asked to translate Masuji Ibuse's Kuroi Ame I had considerable doubts.