Ghosts of the tsunami death and life in Japan's disaster zone

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 thr...

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Main Author: Lloyd Parry, Richard (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Picador, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Maps
  • Prologue: Solid vapor
  • The school beneath the wave
  • 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
  • The 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.