Takashi Nagai The Bells of Nagasaki review, recensie en informatie boek over de gevolgen van de atoombom op de Japanse stad Nagasaki in 1945 van de Japanse arts en schrijver. Op 31 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics de Nederlandse vertaling van 長崎の鐘, het boek uit 1946 van Takashi Nagai. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Takashi Nagai The Bells of Nagasaki review en recensie
- “A vivid first-hand account of the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki… The testament of one of the most remarkable men in post-war Japan.” (Bloomsbury Review)
- “The Bells of Nagasaki evoked on extraordinary deep response of the Japanese people… (they) rediscovered in this book something that had long lain buried under war – love!” (Shusaku Endo)
- “A book that everyone should read.” (The Times)
The Bells of Nagasaki
- Auteur: Takashi Nagai (Japan)
- Soort boek: oorlogsboek
- Origineel: 長崎の鐘 (1946)
- Engelse vertaling; William Johnston
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics
- Verschijnt: 31 juli 2025
- Omvang: 192 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 8,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst boek over de atoombom op Nagasaki van Takashi Nagai
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.
On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.
Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the city’s university hospital, Takashi bundles together a tattered group of survivors. Doctors, nurses, students, each with their own losses, their own fears for the future: they work tirelessly at the impossible task of aiding the countless wounded and easing the deaths of those they cannot save. They remain determined to heal their fallen city, to find solace and hope among the rubble, even as a strange and growing sickness begins to claim them.
Eyewitness to one of the most fatal events in human history, this is Takashi’s record, written from his sickbed – a chilling historical document, and undeniable evidence of the capacity for human kindness.
Takashi Nagai was born on 3 february 1908 in Matsue, Japan. He was a Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title ‘The saint of Nagasaki’. He died on 1 May 1951, aged 43, in Nagasaki from leukaemia.
