tarabyt3 's review for:

Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse

4.0

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A chilling recounting of the days leading up to and following the bombing of Hiroshima as told by just your average joe. As with most Japanese novels, it was necessary to get into a different mindset to read this, because it's so very detailed on the, for me as an American, strangest things. The story was plodding and there was no plot. It was simply a fictionalized tale based off a journal. But I think the "everyday" feeling of the book is what made it so moving. Excellent war literature from a civilian point of view.