Jumat, 17 Februari 2017

The Reading List: Bob Balaban

 Hiroshima John Hersey (1946) “This is a great book. It’s beautifully written and researched, and hugely significant historically: it forced the world to contemplate the devastation of the bombing, and humanized and universalized the suffering of the Japanese people during a period of intense stereotyping and racial hatred. If that’s not enough, it’s suspenseful, exciting, …

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