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A Dimly Burning Wick: Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima

By Sadako Okuda, Pamela B. Vergun
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By Sadako Okuda, Pamela B. Vergun
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Sadako Okuda was a sewing teacher on a small island some 35 miles outside of Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Even at that distance, her vision and hearing on her right side were permanently damaged.

At the heart of A Dimly Burning Wick is her searing diary recording the final moments of dying civilians and their distinctive perspective on this horrific event. The first part of the book presents a series of immediate, sickening, and amazing impressions as the sufferers ext...

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