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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan
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‘A remarkable and deeply moving book’ Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm’A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction’ Times Literary SupplementOn 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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| Weight | 0.24 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.2 × 12.6 × 19.4 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 304 |
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| Year Published | 2018-5-17 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784704881 |
| About The Author | 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. |
| Review Quote | The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people and led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. |
| Other text | Every time I think of it, I’m filled with wonderment… This book is a future classic of disaster journalism, up there with John Hersey’s Hiroshima. |
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