One sunny day
Subtitle: a child's memories of Hiroshima
By: Hideko Tamura Snider ; foreword by Studs Terkel.
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Snider, Hideko Tamura, 1934-; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi.; Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography.; Girls -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography.
Description: "Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home...".

Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives.
Notes: Includes index.