City of Silence: Listening to Hiroshima
- ISBN-10
- 1570750149
- ISBN-13
- 9781570750144
- Category
- Atomic bomb victims
- Pages
- 146
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Orbis Books
- Author
- Rachelle Linner
Description
Linner draws on her journeys to Hiroshima and her work with A-bomb survivors to explore some of the deeper levels of meaning of this profoundly important event. The stories told in this book bear universal lessons about the meaning of life in the face of suffering, violence and death.
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