Widows of Hiroshima : the life stories of nineteen peasant wives

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Widows of Hiroshima : the life stories of nineteen peasant wives

edited by Mikio Kanda ; translated by Taeko Midorikawa

Macmillan, 1989

  • : pbk

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Based on the articles serialised in: 日本農業新聞 (広島版), 1981

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ISBN 9780333466766

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Told in the matter-of-fact style and earthy language of the Japanese peasant, these are nineteen autobiographical accounts of the lives of women from the Hiroshima area who lost their husbands in the nuclear attack there, Taken together, their accounts are portrayals of the hardships of women's lives among the Japanese peasantry and poignant expressions of lament and anger over the killing of their husbands. Mikio Kanda is the author of numerous books on agricultural topics and is a journalist for the Hiroshima edition of the "Nihon Nogyo Shinbun" (Japan agricultural newspaper).
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: pbk ISBN 9780333466773

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Nineteen autobiographical accounts of women from the Hiroshima area who lost their husbands in the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, these are told in the matter-of-fact style and earthy language of the Jananese peasant. Taken together, their accounts are portrayals of the hardships of women's lives among the Japanese peasantry and poignant expressions of lament and anger over the killing of their husbands. Mikio Kanda is the author of numerous books on agricultural topics and is a journalist for the Hiroshima edition of the "Nihon Nogyo Shinbun" (Japan agricultural newspaper).

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