From Trinity to Trinity
2010
First Published
4.36
Average Rating
97
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FROM TRINITY TO TRINITY recounts the pilgrimage of Japanese atomic-bomb survivor Kyoko Hayashi to the Trinity Site in northern New Mexico, where the world's first atomic bomb test was conducted. Her journey takes her into unfamiliar terrain, both past and present, as she not only confronts American attitudes, disconcertingly detached from the suffering of nuclear destruction, but discovers as well a profound kinship with desert plants and animals, the bomb's "first victims." Translator Eiko Otake, a renowned artist in dance (Eiko & Koma), offers further insight into Hayashi's life and work, illuminating how her identity as "outsider" helped shape her vision. Together author and translator present one woman's transformation from victim to witness, a portrait of endurance as a power of "being" against all odds.
Avg Rating
4.36
Number of Ratings
59
5 STARS
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3 STARS
12%
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Author
Kyōko Hayashi
Author · 3 books
Kyōko Hayashi (林京子) is a Japanese author born in Nagasaki in 1930.
