Widows of Hiroshima: The Life Stories of Nineteen Peasant Wives

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
We Were an Odd Couple, But …....Pages 1-12
All the Tortures of This World Made into One....Pages 13-26
The Great Flood and the Atom Bomb....Pages 27-36
We Found His Testament....Pages 37-46
The Mother Who Lay Down with a Corpse....Pages 47-54
A Coffin Made from Medicine Chests....Pages 55-62
My Unweaned Baby Was Irradiated Too …....Pages 63-70
He Came Back Alive, But …....Pages 71-76
We Switched from Being Drapers to Farmers....Pages 77-86
The War Turned My Life Upside Down....Pages 87-92
I’m an Atom-Bomb Widow....Pages 93-98
I Went to an Island to Look for My Husband....Pages 99-106
An Invalid Like Me Was Left Alive....Pages 107-112
With an Unweaned Baby Strapped on My Back....Pages 113-126
We’ve Lived This Long by Encouraging One Another....Pages 127-134
Even Now There Are Nights When I Can’t Sleep....Pages 135-142
The Death of My Husband and Two Children....Pages 143-152
He’s Never Far from My Thoughts....Pages 153-162
Bringing Back My Dead Husband....Pages 163-175
Back Matter....Pages 176-183