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The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami
Rodale
December 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 1594863784
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This exquisitely written book puts a human face on the
tragedy of last year’s Southeast Asian tsunami through the
heartbreaking and heroic stories of four who survived this
cataclysmic natural
disaster Erich Krauss arrived in the Thai village of Nam Keam on a
relief truck 12 days after an underwater earthquake of
unimaginable magnitude erupted across the ocean floor and
unleashed a tsunami that destroyed millions of lives and
decimated the coastline of Southeast Asia. Wandering around
the wreckage in a contamination suit, trying to deliver
food and water, he found survivors desperate to tell him
what their village had been like and how their lives had
been changed forever. In Wave of Destruction, Krauss shares
the pain and privation of four villagers who made it
through alive only to bury their family and friends. Beginning with their fight for life as a 40-foot wave
crashed down upon their community, and ending with their
slow, confusing quest to rebuild after the last of the
bodies had been buried, Krauss unveils the actions and
thoughts of ordinary people who were forced to brave
extraordinary circumstances. Much like John Hersey did in
his acclaimed book Hiroshima, Krauss, a gifted writer and
expert in Thai culture, allows the reader to experience one
of the worst disasters the world has ever known—through the
eyes of those who will never be able to forget.
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