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Originally Posted by alansplace
Hmmm....is that book what they based the movie by the same name on (starred Michael Douglas), a detective thing in Tokyo? And quit procrastinating and get down in the basement (do they even have basements in Florida?).  |
I don't know about the movie, but the book is a historical-fiction novel, based on true accounts about the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life of Yasuko, on whom the black rain fell, is changed forever by periodic bouts of radiation sickness and the suspicion that her future children, too, may be affected.
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It is the Mobile Read Book Club selection for January 2012.
As to basements, they are hard to come by seeing as we're "just" above water.
