作者：RichardLloydParry
出版社：JonathanCape
副标题：DeathandLifeinJapan’sDisasterZone
出版年：2017-8-31
页数：304
定价：GBP16.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781911214175
内容简介
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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 loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis, and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings. He met a priest who performed exorcisms on people possessed by the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village which had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own.
What really happened to the local children as they waited in the school playground in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up?
Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction, a heart-breaking and intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the personal accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the bleak struggle to find consolation in the ruins.
作者简介
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Richard Lloyd Parry was born in north-west England, and has lived since 1995 in Tokyo, where he is the Asia Editor of The Times newspaper of London. He has reported from twenty-eight countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea. In 2005, he was named the UK’s foreign correspondent of the year. He has also written for Granta, the New York Times and the London Review of Books.
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周末听完的灾难非虚构，也是试图更好地消化新冠百态的“自救”读物之一。熟悉的官方甩锅操作配方和难得“愤怒”和不再忍耐的日本家长，过于真实的海啸后续描写，令人潸然泪下的父母“寻找”孩子之路。自然也是频频想起08年的汶川大地震和无法问责的愤怒，想起09年去北川的时候被某幸存的老师带去北川老县城一遍遍讲述当时发生事情的强烈情绪。通过描写亡灵对话而实现的对生死的探讨以及对日本官僚主义的幽灵的描述很到位。最佩…
几乎从头到尾都在流泪 这是今年读过最难过的一本书了
一個很好的例子，天災往往是人禍。明明孩子是可以避過海嘯的，但卻因為學校對災難應對的疏忽和老師sb而幾乎全死了。之後教育局、校長和唯一倖存的老師都逃避責任，始終沒有承認疏忽。但另一方面，也是日本人那種聽話守紀律的性格害死了自己。作者忍不住表達自己的看法，認為日本需要憤怒、有決斷、敢於打破常規和敢於鬥爭的人。這對中國很有借鑑意義。中國人也一樣，聽話不反抗，能忍耐埋藏憤怒，而且容易好了傷疤忘了疼，得過且…
作者的叙述有种让人想一直看下去的欲望。我觉得日本人的民族性格就是坚忍，压抑自身的情绪，不打扰他人；因此需要变革的时候，却鲜有人站出来。这既是优点又是缺点，完全取决于实际情境。
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