Talk:Hiroshima (book)

Does anyone else agree this book deserves a better page? I mean, I'll write up a new section for each character, and further info.

Yes it needs to have more onfo in it.

Dose it seem that John Hersey favours some of the characters? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.67.216.59 (talk) 01:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Book info!
Added in the information for the book itself.

Kvetcher in the Wry 23:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Hiroshima.jpg
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BetacommandBot 09:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Novel? Or Non-Fiction?
Is the book, and the New Yorker article, a novel, or is it non-fiction? Conventional meanings of these terms suggest that it cannot be both. According to Wikipedia's article on Fiction, "fictionality and the presentation in a narrative are the two features most commonly invoked to distinguish novels from histories." Hiroshima is a narrative, but, if the characters are real, this is not a novel unless Hersey took significant artistic license in writing about these characters. This issue needs to be cleaned up.

Copyright problem
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Incorrect photo captions for Mrs. Nakamura and Miss Sasaki?
I have read Hiroshima with my students for years, and I have always been bothered by what appear to be incorrect photo captions for Mrs. Nakamura and Miss Sasaki, but I have been unable to confirm my suspicions by any other source. It seems Wikipedia is the base source for so many other websites regarding these survivors in this book.

According to John Hersey's book Hiroshima, Mrs. Nakamura is a mother of three, tailor's widow, who earns her living sewing on an old fashioned sewing machine, yet her photo caption shows her at a desk in what looks to be an office setting with a sort of break room behind her and another employee pouring tea.

According to Hiroshima, Miss Sasaki is a younger woman who works at a desk as a personnel clerk in a tin factory, yet her photo caption shows an older woman sitting at an old sewing machine in what looks to be a house setting.

Aren't these ladies incorrectly identified in the page's photos? The images just don't seem to fit what we know about these survivors.

I'd appreciate any feedback on this topic.

Thanks! :)

Lacey12387 (talk) 00:30, 24 September 2019 (UTC)