''Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone'' is a 2017 non-fiction book written by

Richard Lloyd Parry Richard Lloyd Parry (born 1969) is a British foreign correspondent and writer. He is the Asia Editor of ''The Times'' of London, based in Tokyo, and is the author of the non-fiction books ''In the Time of Madness'', ''People Who Eat Darkness: T ...

, an English reporter who lived in Japan and reported about events there for years before the

2011 Japanese tsunami Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *'' ...

, in particular, the fatal decision-making leading to the drowning of the 74 students and 10 teachers of

Okawa Elementary School was an educational institution in Ishinomaki, Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The school was destroyed in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 74 of its 108 students, who had been sheltering in the school on the instructions of t ...

(石巻市立大川小学校). In this book, Parry examines and recounts the devastating impact of the 2011 tsunami on Japanese survivors, communities and society at large, including years later. "It's a...chronicle of a disaster that, six years later, still seems incomprehensible."

Awards and honours

*2018

Folio Prize The Rathbones Folio Prize, previously known as the Folio Prize and The Literature Prize, is a literary award that was sponsored by the London-based publisher The Folio Society for its first two years, 2014–2015. Starting in 2017 the sponsor is ...

References

External links

Publisher's book websiteon Google Books
2017 non-fiction books Natural disasters in Japan Books about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami Books about nuclear issues Jonathan Cape books {{nonfiction-book-stub