作者介紹
作者介紹 Tamiki Hara (Author) Tamiki Hara was a Japanese writer and poet. Born in Hiroshima, he lived through the atomic bombing in 1945. In the years preceding his death, Tamiki Hara wrote about the destruction he witnessed in autobiographical short stories and poems, making him a known figure in the atomic bomb literature genre. Liza Dalby (Translator) Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. Her nonfiction books, Geisha and Kimono, have become classics, and her best-selling historical novel, The Tale of Murasaki has been translated into nine languages. Dalby's memoir, East Wind Melts the Ice, is a gardener's diary and an enlightening excursion through cultures east and west. Dalby lives in Berkeley, California.