Death and Life in Japan
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Köp båda 2 för 400 krThe 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, Im filled with wonderment... This book is a future classic of disaster journalism, up there with John Herseys 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 * A breathtaking, extraordinary work Parry writes with great fluency and timing, like a novelist alternating cadences and withholding information from the reader so as to create moments of tension and surprise. And there is something of the folklorist in the way he discusses the tradition of ghost stories in places such as Tohoku and Sendai. -- Gavin Jacobson * Times Literary Supplement * Compassionate and piercing... giving it the character of a finely conceived crime fiction or a psychological drama Tragic, engrossing. -- Eri Hotta * Guardian * Parry, a journalist and long-time Tokyo resident, is able to draw something meaningful, even lovely, from the well of misery Overall, the strength of the book lies in its stories, its observations and its language The language is daring throughout. -- David Pilling * Financial Times * Ghosts of the Tsunami is alert to the social and political ramifications and transfixed by the spectral quality of the post-disaster landscape These twin streams one universal, the other intensely particular come together in the mystery that is at this books core Some of his most fascinating chapters take in the disasters psychological aftermath It is full of stories of human endeavor, of individual and collective triumph over well-nigh insuperable odds As well as being full of ghosts, Lloyd Parrys A-grade reportage is also full of metaphors. -- D. J. Taylor * The Times * A remarkable and deeply moving book describing in plain and perfect prose the almost unimaginable devastation and tragedy of the Japanese tsunami. -- Henry Marsh Ghosts of the Tsunami is enthralling and deeply moving, fully conveying and involving the reader in the sheer horror and tragedy of all that happened yet with such beauty, honesty and sincerity. Richard Lloyd Parry has returned the trust and done justice to the victims and their families a hundredfold. -- David Peace When Lloyd Parry wrote Ghosts of the Tsunami, he was seeking the gift of imagination the paradoxical capacity to feel tragedy on the surface of the skin, in all its cruelty and dread, but also to understand it with calm and penetration. It is to his great credit that, once he attained this gift, he so generously shared it with us here. -- Yo Zushi * New Statesman * Ghosts of the Tsunami is a deeply moving and powerfully intimate work about the enduring strength of community and family in the face of unimaginable destruction and loss. This is a haunting, beautiful, and unforgettable book. -- Hctor Tobar, author of DEEP DOWN DARK A well-researched, polyphonic narrative of what happened on the day 133-ft waves swept in and how the story continued long after the news cameras left Lloyd Parry offers a rare glimpse into the history and culture of a region where entire villages were wiped out By gaining the trust of those on the ground, the author has created an unrivalled account of how Tohoku grieved, and is still grieving. -- Emily Finch * Prospect * The character sketches are colourful; the chapters end on cliffhangers. Lloyd Parrys pro
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.