Ghosts of the tsunami : death and life in Japan's disaster zone / Richard Lloyd Parry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd Parry, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.

Tsunamis--Japan--History--21st century.

Tsunamis.

History.

Japan--History--Heisei period, 1989-2019.

Japan.

Japan--Tōhoku Region.

Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan, 2011.

Tsunamis--Japan.

Japan--History--Heisei period, 1989-.

Local Subjects:

Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan, 2011.

Tsunamis--Japan.

Japan--History--Heisei period, 1989-.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American Edition.

Other Title:

Death and life in Japan's disaster zone

Place of Publication:

New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Summary:

On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. Ghosts of the Tsunami is the intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the perspectives of those who lived through it. -- Adapted from book jacket.

March 11, 2011. A powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan; more than eighteen thousand people were crushed, burned to death, or drowned. Parry lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and over six years of reporting he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all: Okawa Elementary School was decimated. Here he tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.

Contents:

The school beneath the wave

Maps

Having gone, I will come

Where are the children?

Jigoku

Area of search

Abundant nature

The mud

The old and the young

Explanations

Ghosts

What it's all about?

What happened at Okawa

Last hour of the old world

Inside the tsunami

The river of three crossings

The invisible monster

In the web

What use is the truth?

The tsunami is not water

Predestination

The rough, steep path

There may be gaps in memory

Gone altogether beyond

Consolation of the spirits

Save don't fall to sea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780374253974

0374253978

OCLC:

995289280