Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone - Softcover

Richard Lloyd Parry

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9781911214182: Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

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ISBN 10: 1911214187 ISBN 13: 9781911214182

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2017

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About the Author:

Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the Independent and now for The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

Review:

"The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people and led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster." * Mail Online * "Every time I think of it, I'm filled with wonderment... This book is a future classic of disaster journalism, up there with John Hersey's Hiroshima." -- Rachel Cooke * Observer * "Mr Lloyd Parry offers a voice to the grieving who, too often, found it hard to be heard. It is a thoughtful lesson to all societies whose first reaction in the face of adversity is to shut down inquiry and cover up the facts. You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year." * Economist * "A stunning book from the man who has a strong claim to be the most compelling non-fiction writer in the world." -- Johann Hari "A book of absolute, harrowing truth and beauty. I'd give up four of my novels to have written this book." -- Jim Crace * Guardian *

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