Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374253978 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia editor and Tokyo bureau chief of The Times (London) and the author of In the Time of Madness and People Who Eat Darkness.
And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned.It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japanby the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat DarknessOn March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up?Ghosts of the Tsunami
"Pensive travels in the wake of one of the world's most devastating recent disasters, the Tohoku earthquake of 2011 The author's narrative is appropriately haunted and haunting A sobering and compelling narrative of calamity." –Kirkus Reviews