| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
224 pages : map ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience the terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. She takes us to the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water. The stories of rice farmers, monks, and wandered; of fisherman who drove boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a song that only she still remembered are both harrowing and inspirational. Facing death, facing life, and coming to terms with impermanence are equally compelling in a landscape of surreal desolation, as the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power complex, spews radiation into the ocean and air. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-224). |
| Subject |
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
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Tsunami damage -- Japan -- Tōhoku Region.
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Tsunami relief -- Japan -- Tōhoku Region.
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Disaster victims -- Japan -- Tōhoku Region.
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| ISBN |
9780307907318 hardback |
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0307907317 hardback |
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