Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

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

Richard Lloyd Parry

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective sad slow-paced

Description

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 greate...

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