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The first thing that strikes you about Jonathan Yuen’s “Memoirs of Hijiyama” is the prologue, with its astoundingly polite and almost humble statement from the author. He writes this in part in regards to his work; “I would be grateful if it could provoke certain consciousness on the danger inherent in the wrong use of nuclear power.”
His opening salvo, coupled with the visual of a lantern, glowing in an almost malignant way among amongst other, smaller, larvae-grey lanterns and jumbled text, leads the reader to understand this is not going to be an ordinary or scholarly meditation upon the horrors of nuclear weapons. |
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