書誌情報

書名:

Rain of fire

カテゴリー:

Juvenile Literature

言語:

English

Description:

Bauer, Marion Dane/ Rain of Fire/ New York/ Clarion Books, 1983. This is a novel which received a Jane Addams Peace Association Award. In the story, a twelve-year-o1d boy boasts about his brother, who came back from the war against Japan, as a hero to his friends, then learns the reality of the war through his brother's story about the devastation of the bombing of Hiroshima and a boy who died after the bombing in his arms. マリアン・D. バウアー『ヒロシマから帰った兄』(佑学社 1992年) ジェーン・アダムス平和賞を受賞した小説。12歳の少年は、日本との戦争から帰って来た兄を英雄視するが、兄が見た原爆投下直後の広島の惨状や、被爆後、兄の腕の中で死んだ少年の話を聞き、戦争の現実を知る。