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Maruki Toshi (1912–2000)

Författare till Hiroshima No Pika

7+ verk 212 medlemmar 23 recensioner

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Inkluderar namnen: 丸木 俊, Toshi Maruki

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Vedertaget namn
Toshi, Maruki
Andra namn
Toŝi, Maruki
Födelsedag
1912-02-11
Avled
2000-01-13
Kön
female
Födelseort
Japan
Yrken
verkistino

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Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies? It's a cartoon movie with the same subject as this book. Both are horrifying and important. As the author of this books says, it's all about making people realize that atomic bombs should never be dropped again.
 
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LibrarianDest | 21 andra recensioner | Jan 3, 2024 |
This is the catalog from the 1988 exhibit of the same name at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, on the occasion of the College awarding honorary degrees to the Marukis

These paintings are their response to what they saw in Hiroshima when they arrived a few days after the bombing to succour the victims. But they also paint responses to Auschwitz, to Okinawa.

Also contained herein are comments by literary figures such as Denise Levertov, Leon Golub, Kenzaburo Oe and others from the symposium on art and engagement also held at this time, and short essays on the art of the Marukis.… (mer)
 
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lilithcat | Oct 24, 2023 |
Apicture book about ""the Flash"" at Hiroshima would seem a dubious proposition. Japanese artist and antiwar activist Maruki manages to avoid the opposing perils of giving children nightmares and belittling the horror. The text, based on one woman's account with bits of other people's experiences mixed in, tells of a sunny day and a pleasant family breakfast interrupted by a sudden, terrible flash, followed by fire and chaos. The little girl Mil is knocked unconscious but recovers to run from the debris, fleeing the fire with her mother, who carries Mii's badly wounded father on her back. Crowds of people wander like ghosts, and fall. ""There were heaps of people everywhere."" A man and a cat float down the river, dead. A nursing mother wades into the river and out of sight, carrying her dead baby. Darkness, rain, two rivers, and four days later, Mil is still clutching her breakfast chopsticks. Returning to the city, the family finds ""a burned-out wasteland as far as the eye could see."" Mii's father seems to heal, but he dies within months. ""Mii never grew after that day. Many years have passed and she is still the same size she was when she was seven years old."" Thousands of people died, Maruki adds, and many are still in hospitals. ""There is no cure for their diseases."" On August 6, Mii floats a lantern for her father and another for a swallow who was also a casualty of the Flash. ""It can't happen again,"" she says, ""if no one drops the bomb."" Maruki's illustrations are fluent, expressive, gracefully distorted, a bit pretty for the occasion if judged for adults, but--with all the swirling backgrounds of cloudy fire and the heaped and floating masses of nude bodies--clearly depicting ""something very bad that happened,"" which Maruki describes for young people ""in the hope that their knowing will help keep it from happening again."" The publishers, playing it safe, age the book ""12 up,"" but it reads far more simply, looks like a typical picture book, and is altogether a gentler, and thus suitably younger introduction than Lifton's Return to Hiroshima (1970).

-Kirkus Review
… (mer)
 
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CDJLibrary | 21 andra recensioner | Jan 19, 2023 |
This book should still be published today. Maybe be giving new illustrations as modern libraries would not a low a naked woman’s nipple to be on the cover of a book in the children’s department. This is the true story of a little girl and her mother on the day of and days after the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. This story is bold, this story is powerful. This story is heartbreaking, and should still be in libraries, so children can learn not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
 
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LibrarianRyan | 21 andra recensioner | Nov 9, 2021 |

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John Berger Contributor
Kenzaburō Ōe Contributor
Denise Levertov Contributor
Leon Golub Contributor
John Junkerman Contributor
Sodei Rinjiro Contributor
Paul Stopforth Contributor
Yasuo Ishikawa Contributor

Statistik

Verk
7
Även av
1
Medlemmar
212
Popularitet
#104,834
Betyg
4.1
Recensioner
23
ISBN
11
Språk
7

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