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

276 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective sad slow-paced

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On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,500 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned.It was Japan’s greatest single lo...

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