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A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Pantheon
February 2013
On Sale: February 12, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0307907317
EAN: 9780307907318
Kindle: B00A1P08Z6
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Non-Fiction History
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 their
terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all
shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that
blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt
reflection, she takes us into 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 wanderers; of
fishermen who drove their 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. Facing the
Wave is a testament to the buoyancy, spirit, humor, and
strong-mindedness of those who must find their way in a
suddenly shattered world.
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