Author: Arthur Binard.
The Fundación Japón presents the book The Waiting (Sagashiteimasu), by Arthur Binard, which has supported its translation and publication through the Support Program for Translation and Publication on Japan.
A tribute to the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in commemoration of its 80th anniversary. A deep reflection on the tragedy so that it will never be forgotten.
In February 2011, poet Arthur Binard and photographer Tadashi Okakura visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to carefully portray some of the more than 21,000 objects that this space stores, marked by the uranium bomb that fell on this Japanese city on 6 August 1945, killing some 140,000 people.
So this book was born, which brings together a watch, some gloves, a container, a dress… up to fourteen remains of the atomic barbarity. The author recreates the life of these belongings and their owners prior to the explosion of the equivalent of 1,600 tons of dynamite, at eight-fifteen in the morning of that fateful day.
With a marked pacifist purpose, some protagonists of this book are girls and boys who, in the middle of World War II, were forced to work demolishing buildings as a preventive measure against the bombing of the American army.
This work -with translation of Kazumi One- is a tribute to the victims and a deep reflection on that tragedy that, Three days later, it was repeated in Nagasaki with the launch of a plutonium bomb which instantly killed some 70,000 people and many thousands more as a result of radiation.
The wait is part of a creative current that emerged in Japan after the disaster of March 2011, when a major earthquake hit the northwest of the country, causing a tsunami and a nuclear crisis. In a dystopian context of fear and uncertainty, these readings explore human emotions and raise questions of deep philosophical depth.
Pages: 36
Publisher: Kalandraka
ISBN: 9788413433714
RPP: 16 €