In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path-highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses-leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to such a…mehr
In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path-highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses-leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to such a tragedy, in what is a fascinating, enigmatic and poignant collection.
Elmer Luke is a writer and editor who has worked in publishing houses in New York and Tokyo, with a range of authors including Tom Wicker, Haruki Murakami, Colleen McCullough, Hiromi Kawakami, and Robert Whiting. He is adviser to the Read Japan project. David Karashima is an author whose first novel, in Japanese, was recipient of a prize for new writers; he is also a widely published translator of contemporary Japanese fiction into English, having translated works by Hitomi Kanehara, Taichi Yamada, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Hisaki Matsuura, among others. In 2008 he helped found the Read Japan initiative at the Nippon Foundation, a partnership among authors, translators, editors, publishers, and universities to facilitate the publication of Japanese literature in translation.
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Foreword by John Burnham Schwartz Introduction by Elmer Luke and David Karashima The Island of Eternal Life by Yoko Tawada The Charm by Kiyoshi Shigematsu Nightcap by Yoko Ogawa God Bless You, 2011 with postscript and original 1993 version by Hiromi Kawakami March Yarn by Mieko Kawakami Lulu by Shinji Ishii One Year Later by J. D. McClatchy Grandma’s Bible by Natsuki Ikezawa Pieces by Mitsuyo Kakuta Sixteen Years Later, in the Same Place by Hideo Furukawa The Crows and the Girl by Brother & Sister Nishioka Box Story by Tetsuya Akikawa Dream from a Fisherman’s Boat by Barry Yourgrau Hiyoriyama by Kazumi Saeki Ride on Time by Kazushige Abe Little Eucalyptus Leaves by Ryu Murakami After the Disaster, Before the Disaster by David Peace
Foreword by John Burnham Schwartz Introduction by Elmer Luke and David Karashima The Island of Eternal Life by Yoko Tawada The Charm by Kiyoshi Shigematsu Nightcap by Yoko Ogawa God Bless You, 2011 with postscript and original 1993 version by Hiromi Kawakami March Yarn by Mieko Kawakami Lulu by Shinji Ishii One Year Later by J. D. McClatchy Grandma’s Bible by Natsuki Ikezawa Pieces by Mitsuyo Kakuta Sixteen Years Later, in the Same Place by Hideo Furukawa The Crows and the Girl by Brother & Sister Nishioka Box Story by Tetsuya Akikawa Dream from a Fisherman’s Boat by Barry Yourgrau Hiyoriyama by Kazumi Saeki Ride on Time by Kazushige Abe Little Eucalyptus Leaves by Ryu Murakami After the Disaster, Before the Disaster by David Peace
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