Hiroshima: Novel on Hiroshima saga

by B.D. Kher

First A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and World-war II found devastating ending. Atom Bomb killed some millions of people so far. Mr. B. D. Kher, eminent Marathi novelist, had been to Japan in 1976, visited relevant places, interviewed bomb-affected victims and after laboring over eight years on the subject; he wrote this monumental novel. This epic novel with 250 characters, received many awards including Soviet Land Nehru Award, Maharashtra Sate Award etc. The novel was very well received by the readers and critics in the society.

616 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2016

About the author

B.D.Kher, who authored about 117 books during his life time, wrote his first book in 1939. His recently published books, 'Sanjeevan' (based on the life of Sant Dnyaneshwar) and 'Gandharvagatha' (based on the life of Balgandharv), were well received by readers. Kher left Marathi daily 'Kesri' as an associate editor after 22 years of service. Later, he joined 'Sahyadri' as the editor and stayed in that position for 10 years.

In 1976, a Japanese foundation had invited him to write a novel on the Hiroshima bombing incident. Kher received awards for his novels like 'Anandbhavan', 'Hasre Dukkha', 'Hiroshima', 'Samagra Lokmanya Tilak' etc. He authored V D Savarkar's biography 'Yadnya', which registered 11,000 pre-publishing bookings.

Reviews

[Keerti Kulkarni · Rating 3 out of 5]

The subject of the novel had raised expectations. No doubt the author has taken lots of efforts - visiting the place, meeting people, listening to their real life stories, rather pains and compiling all and trying to present as a meaningful sequence of events is a big task. Actually, wonder if it should be called a novel; it rather is a narrative account of real event, the darkest one in the history of human beings and the sufferings of the victims. Hence, the book should have been more gripping. Unfortunately, the book lacks this quality. Some details seem unnecessary and do not add anything to the plot. The book could have been more tightly woven and concise.

[Swapneel Kale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book... It's novel, informative, realistic, well written, non boring... Totally worth for 5 stars.