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Informationen zum Autor Richard Lloyd Parry Klappentext Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian , NPR, GQ , The Economist , Bookforum , and Lit Hub 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 by unbearable mysteries of its own. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? Ghosts of the Tsunami is a soon-to-be classic intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the 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 ...
