A review by thewindupreaderchronicle
Hiroshima by John Hersey

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 

[hiroshima - john hersey] 

 

stars: ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ (it feels weird to put starts to the suffering of millions of people, but i rate it from the perspective of how it’s written) 

 

“his memory, like the world’s, was getting spotty.” 

 

after some weeks of being stuck with my reading, starting new books and stopping after a couple of chapters, over and over again, i was frustrated. so i decided to go back to my “roots”, if i can put it like that. 

 

in a convulse time, with so much worldwide uncertainty, john hersey words remember us what we are capable of doing to other humans, that are just like us. through an apparent effortless writing style, hersey conveys the full horror that the atomic bomb was in hiroshima. 

 

a mother, a doctor, a priest.. they all had a life before this horrendous event. and after, conditioned forever by one of the most cruel acts humankind has seen, they tried to survive, continue with what they were doing and strive for a better future for those who they cared about. 

 

it’s difficult to put into words what all those people in ‘hiroshima’ had gone through, but i think hersey is able to make us understand (us, the ones born way after this happened and thousands of kilometres far from it) what it meant to throw an atomic bomb to a city. and again, it is now when we must remember and be conscious about how cruel we can be to people who are just like us. 

 

m. 🌸