Ghosts of the Tsunami

Informationen zum Autor Richard Lloyd Parry Klappentext A renowned journalist for London's The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness , Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the definitive account of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, and the stories of the survivors. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian , NPR, GQ , The Economist , Bookforum , and LitHub On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. 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 set off a national crisis and the meltdown of Fukushima's nuclearpower plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways. Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. 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. Ghosts of the Tsunami is an intimate and timeless account of an epic tragedy, told through the stories of those who lived through it. It tells of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and its struggle to find consolation in the ruins. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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Richard Lloyd Parry

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A renowned journalist for London's The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the definitive account of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, and the stories of the survivors.

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, and LitHub

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. 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 set off a national crisis and the meltdown of Fukushima's nuclearpower plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.

Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. 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.

Ghosts of the Tsunami is an intimate and timeless account of an epic tragedy, told through the stories of those who lived through it. It tells of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and its struggle to find consolation in the ruins.

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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