Nagasaki: Bomb & Aftermath  (Paperback, Videh' Arvind Kumar)

Nagasaki: Bomb & Aftermath: This is a work of literary study into the first novel ‘The Pale View of Hills’ by 2017 Literature Nobel Laureate, Kazuo Ishiguro, who has narrated in a mesmerising style of story telling the tale of Japanese society undergoing change in the aftermath of dropping of atomic bomb. The Americans not only vanquished and occupied the Japanese military and land by dropping the never before heard of the most lethal weapon – the atomic bomb – on two of the Japanese cities, one of which was Nagasaki which witnessed this technological devastation on 8th of August, 1945, that is, 77 years ago, but also, occupied the minds and hearts of Japanese youth, both men and women. The youth of Japan started decrying everything old and conventional including education system and the ideologies of patriotism and nationalism. v