Hiroshima

Résumé du livre

"Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness traces the often-faltering steps of Takashi Tanemori from the ashes of postwar Japan to a new life and purpose. Raised under the Seven Codes of the Samurai, Takashi was less than one mile from ground zero when the world's first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, claiming his parents, two sisters and his father's grandparents. Orphaned, he became an outcast in family-centric Japan, sometimes scavenging from garbage cans merely to survive. As an increasingly distraught young man, he attempted suicide, further dishonoring his position as the Number One Son of the Samurai father he honored and adored. Determined to avenge himself on Americans, he emigrated to the United States, only to become deathly ill and suffer cruelly at the hands of doctors who saw him as a guinea pig for radiation tests. But ultimately, through acts of kindness and a transcendent, life-transforming vision, even while going blind, he rebuilt his life and came to devote himself to promoting "Peace through Forgiveness" and helping future learn to live in Heiwa -- peace, with harmony and equality."--Back cover