HIROSHIMA by John Hersey / Storytelling

"A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything." Since this reportage was issued in New Yorker in August 31st 1946, millions all over the world began to understand what really happened at the time the bomb fell, and how they reacted and what they witnessed afterward. As the editors who decided this edition to be devoted entirely to just one article said, "in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use", it is possible to say that “Hiroshima” is still relevant as we take glance at current world. Read by Sayaka Botanic, Noriko Okaku, Hisashi Yamauchi, Jon Bonnici, Koichi Ymnha, Junya Ishii