Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics)

They had us make our own cranes when we read this during middle school. I was new to origami, but it only took a couple of minutes to make the crane. I suddenly wondered how long it would take to make a thousand. At two minutes a crane, sitting in bed and doing it for, say, eight out of my sixteen w......more

This is a fictionalized account of a real-life girl in post-WWII Japan, who begins to suffer the aftereffects of radiation poisoning from the bomb that hit Hiroshima at the end of the war. Her quest to fold a thousand origami cranes begins with the gift of one gold paper crane. Sadako Sasaki is an en......more

*/حاوی اسپویل/* دوست دارید در کمترین زمان ممکن دچار غمباد و بغض بشید؟ این کتاب مناسب شماست! ساداکو ۲ ساله بود که بمب اتم هیروشیما، محل زندگیش رو زیر و رو کرد. با اینکه خردسال بود اما همیشه می‌گفت دقیق به خاطر داره که چطوری بمب افتاد انگار که خورشید به زمین افتاده بود. ساداکو خیلی سریع می‌دوید مثل باد......more

Review to come. My phone is currently broken and I can't access Audible or Kindle at the moment so I went with my unread paper backs. I'll be back currently soon my friends <3 This is a beautiful and absolutely devastating book that everyone must read - it'll take you less than an hour.......more