Hiroshima - Stories of six survivors of the nuclear bomb disaster

Hiroshima Translation by Abdullah Al-Ajeer This book, although a true story about the remnants of the lives of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, is not intended merely to "entertain" the reader and "console" him with these stories, but it represents a critique that touches the reader's chest with some violence to alert him to what he sees around him of the misery of humanity when left to itself, and its trivialization of its values whenever it can crush what it sees as an obstacle to its interests. This book, therefore, is not classified as a mere collection of historical moments, but as a stripping away of the Western civilization's pomp through that pivotal moment which the book's translator described accurately when he said: (It is one of the most revealing moments in which Western society's morality was exposed, and the true nature of the ruling intellectual system of its life became apparent. Humanity, due to this event, entered the nuclear age, but it entered it through its worst doors). And many are the revealing moments worth capturing with the intent of exposure, so that we realize how Western society, with its idolized systems, has ushered in eras of decline, except for this nuclear age.