It was just over a year after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima that John Hersey published his riveting 30,000-word essay, a piece of storytelling to which an entire edition of the New Yorker was dedicated. The power of his narrative arose not just from the fact that, contrary to the efforts of US censors, it exposed in graphic, heart-sundering detail the full extent of the tragedy. More particularly, by recounting the stories of individuals, it stirred into consciousness a horror simply too large to be comprehended as a whole.
广岛核爆炸刚刚过去一年的时候，约翰•赫西(John Hersey)就发表了一篇三万字的文章。《纽约客》(New Yorker)用了整整一期来刊载这篇令人动容的报道。这篇文章的力量不仅在于，其顶住了来自美国审查机构的压力，以极具画面感和让人撕心裂列肺的细节描述，全方位记录了这场悲剧。更为特别的是，其通过讲述几个人的故事，将一个过于庞大、作为一个整体难以理解的惨烈事件拆开、打散，帮助人们一点点了解它。
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