Richard Lloyd Parry

Ghosts of the Tsunami (eBook, ePUB)

Death and Life in Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm

'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary Supplement

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the epicentre. Learning about the lives of those affected through their own personal accounts, he paints a rich picture of the impact the tsunami had on day to day Japanese life.

Heart-breaking and hopeful, this intimate account of a tragedy unveils the unique nuances of Japanese culture, the tsunami's impact on Japan's stunning and majestic landscape and the psychology of its people.

Ghosts of the Tsunami is an award-winning classic of literary non-fiction. It tells the moving, evocative story of how a nation faced an unimaginable catastrophe and rebuilt to look towards the future.

**WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473546660
• Artikelnr.: 45326149

Autorenporträt

Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the Independent and now for The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Maps xi
Prologue: Solid Vapor 3
Part I: The School Beneath the Wave
Having Gone, I Will Come 17
Where Are the Children? 29
Jigoku 38
Part II: Area of Search
Abundant Nature 53
The Mud 65
The Old And The Young 76
Explanations 85
Ghosts 98
What It's All About 115
Part III: What Happened at Okawa
The Last Hour of the Old World 127
Inside the Tsunami 144
The River of Three Crossings 156
Part IV: The Invisible Monster
In the Web 165
What Use Is the Truth? 177
The Tsunami Is Not Water 189
Predestination 203
The Rough, Steep Path 214
There May Be Gaps in Memory 223
Part V: Gone Altogether Beyond
Consolation of the Spirits 237
Save Don't Fall to Sea 250
Notes 271
Acknowledgments 281
Index 283

Rezensionen

The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people and led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Mail Online