Hiroshima, 8:15. By Tanimoto Kiyoshi. Modern Library; 224 pages; $32. Ebury Press; £16.99
《广岛，8点15分》，谷本清著。现代图书馆出版社；224页；32美元。埃伯里出版社；16.99英镑。
WHEN THE atomic bomb hit Hiroshima at 8.15am on August 6th 1945, Tanimoto Kiyoshi was helping a neighbour move furniture on the outskirts of the city. He hid between two rocks and, miraculously(奇迹般地), emerged unharmed. Then Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, began a harrowing(令人痛苦的，折磨人的) journey to search for his wife, daughter and church members. He encountered ghostly processions of naked people, their skin hanging from their flesh.(他遇到一队队赤身裸体、皮肤从身上垂下的幽灵般的人群。) “People were moving as if(好像，仿佛) they were carrying precious porcelain with both hands,” he wrote in a memoir that has been newly rediscovered.
1945年8月6日上午8点15分，原子弹击中广岛时，谷本清正在市郊帮邻居搬家具。他躲进两块岩石之间，奇迹般地毫发无损。随后，这位卫理公会牧师开始了寻找妻子、女儿和教会成员的痛苦旅程。他遇到了一队队赤身裸体、皮肤从身上垂下的幽灵般的人群。他在一本新近重新发现的回忆录中写道：“人们走动着，仿佛双手捧着珍贵的瓷器。”
Some ten months later, with the city still in ruins(成为废墟，毁坏), a lanky(瘦长的，瘦高的) American journalist visited Tanimoto’s home. He said he wanted to investigate the effects of the atomic bombs “from the perspective of the people”. Tanimoto told the man his story; the journalist “listened intently(专注地，聚精会神地) and showed much sympathy”. That August, the New Yorker dedicated an entire issue of its magazine to John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”.
大约十个月后，城市仍是一片废墟，一位瘦高的美国记者拜访了谷本清的家。他说他想“从民众的视角”调查原子弹的影响。谷本清向这个人讲述了他的故事；记者“专注地倾听，并表现出极大的同情”。那年八月，《纽约客》用整整一期杂志刊登了约翰·赫西的《广岛》。
