Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XBP3RV6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 233 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-20 |
| 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.
"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
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 set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. 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. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.. 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 sa