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Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian , NPR, GQ , The Economist , Bookforum , and Amazon The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan?by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness 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 a nuclear power plant. 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. 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 b

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Author

Richard Lloyd Parry; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374710934

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.42 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14