Hiroshima Lydia Davis *The publisher wishes to acknowledge

*The publisher wishes to acknowledge an error included in the expanded version of Modern Forms

readers may also perceive a universal sensitivity toward colour that can be applied in daily life today

At sixteen

In this landmark new book

Do you ask questions

Hiroshima Lydia Davis *The publisher wishes to acknowledgeThe explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event, John Hersey's Hiroshima was an immediate phenomenon. Originally published in the New Yorker magazine the only single article to ever fill an entire edition it quickly became a bestseller and established