A Song for Nagasaki
Paul Glynn
Foreword by Stan Arneil

"The most effective argument against nuclear war that I have yet read, partly because it evokes a gut response and makes me weep, and partly because it is an uplifting story of unimaginable heroism. It is also a testimony to the tenacity and goodness of the human spirit in even the bleakest, most desolate circumstances." - Mary Craig, The Tablet

"A Song for Nagasaki is the story of Takashi Nagai, M.D., pioneer professor of radiology at the University of Nagasaki, who died of atomic disease six years after the second atomic bomb incinerated his wife and home. It is also the story of his spiritual pilgrimage from his native Shintoism to atheistic rationalism and then to a rationalist complacency disturbed by Pascalâs Pensées. His heart, convinced by the fervor of the family he boarded with, converted to a lively Christian faith. Skilfully weaving Japanese culture and the history of Christianity in Japan throughout the development of Nagai's intellectual and spiritual growth, Glynn (an Australian Marist who has served over 20 years in Japan) not only broadens the reader's perspective but deeply touches the heart." - Bob Flynn, America

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