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March was made of yarn : reflections on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown

2012
Book
In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path--highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses--leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to such a tragedy, in what is a fascinating, enigmatic and poignant collection.
Imprint:
New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
Collation:
xxi, 216 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"A Vintage Books original, March 2012"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Foreword by John Burnham Schwartz -- Introduction by David Karashima and Elmer Luke -- The island of eternal life by Yoko Tawada -- The charm by Kiyoshi Shigematsu -- Nightcap by Yoko Ogawa -- God bless you, 2011 by Hiromi Kawakami -- March yarn by Mieko Kawakami -- Lulu by Shinji Ishii -- One year later by J. D. McClatchy -- Grandma's bible by Natsuki Ikezawa -- Pieces by Mitsuyo Kakuta -- Sixteen years later, in the same place by Hideo Furukawa -- The crows and the girl by Brother & Sister Nishioka -- Box story by Tetsuya Akikawa -- Dream from a fisherman's boat by Barry Yourgrau -- Hiyoriyama by Kazumi Saeki -- Ride on time by Kazushige Abe -- Little eucalyptus leaves by Ryu Murakami -- After the disaster, before the disaster by David Peace.
ISBN:
97803079488610307948862
Dewey class:
895.6080358520512895.608
LC class:
PL782.E1
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
25687
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
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