Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
<p><b>The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan&#8212;by the Japan correspondent of <i>The Times</i> (London) and author of <i>People Who Eat Darkness</i></b></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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, and met a priest who exorcised the...</p>