Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone is a 2017 non-fiction book written by Richard Lloyd Parry, an English reporter who lived in Japan and reported about events there for years before the 2011 Japanese tsunami, in particular, the fatal decision-making leading to the drowning of the 74 students and 10 teachers of Ogawa Elementary School (石巻市立大川小学校).[1][2] In this book, Parry examines and recounts the devastating impact of the 2011 tsunami on Japanese survivors, communities and society at large, including years later. "It's a...chronicle of a disaster that, six years later, still seems incomprehensible."[3][4][5][6]

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
First edition (UK)
AuthorRichard Lloyd Parry
PublisherJonathan Cape (UK)
MCD (US)
Publication date
31 August 2017
Pages352
ISBN978-0-374-25397-4 (Hardcover)

Awards and honours

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Okawa Elementary School after the tsunami, the focus of the book.

References

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  1. ^ Parry, Richard Lloyd (2014-02-06). "Ghosts of the Tsunami". London Review of Books. pp. 13–17. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  2. ^ Rooney, Kathleen. "'Ghosts of the Tsunami': Richard Lloyd Parry offers a harrowing account, deftly told, of the 2011 disaster". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  3. ^ Schaub, Michael (October 26, 2017). "'Ghosts Of The Tsunami' Examines The Disaster That Haunts Japan". NPR. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Cooke, Rachel (August 27, 2017). "Ghosts of the Tsunami review – dispatch from the disaster zone". The Guardian. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  5. ^ Anderson, Sam (December 22, 2017). "New Sentences: From Richard Lloyd Parry's 'Ghosts of the Tsunami'". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  6. ^ Kelts, Roland (January 8, 2018). "'Ghosts of the Tsunami' humanizes the survivors of Japan's 2011 catastrophe". Christian Science Monitor.
  7. ^ "Announcing the Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018". Folio Prize. 8 May 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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