'The room was filled with a blinding light. She was paralysed by fear, fixed still in her chair for a long moment. Everything fell.' 2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, on 6 August at 8.15am, an atomic bomb was dropped, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. John Hersey's spare, devastating report on the attack was first published in the New Yorkerin 1946. Written in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, it chronicles what happened through the eyes of six civilians. It is a classic piece of journalism, and a defining moment of the nuclear age. 'One of the most powerful writers of modern times.' Washington Post
John Richard Hersey Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
John Hersey è stato uno scrittore e giornalista americano, considerato uno dei primi esponenti del cosiddetto New Journalism. La sua opera fonde le tecniche narrative del romanzo con il reportage di non-fiction. È celebre per il suo resoconto sugli effetti del bombardamento atomico di Hiroshima, giudicato il miglior pezzo giornalistico del XX secolo per la sua capacità di unire narrazione avvincente e accuratezza fattuale.
