It was not easy to circumvent the censorship by which MacArthur imposed a rigorous silence on the Japanese over the annihilating effects of the atomic attacks of August 6 and 9, 1945. Hence, as Kenzaburo Oé explains in his Hiroshima Notebooks ( Anagrama ), the book "caught the attention of many people" and was immediately accused of holding "an anti-American speech", for the audacity to describe starkly the memories of the bombing of an elderly survivor.

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