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.
发表于2024-12-22
Ghosts of the Tsunami 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在这本书之前刚好看了《日本人为何选择了战争》,一本剖析日本近百年战争历史的书。短短一个世纪,日本发动了五次大规模对外战争,前三次都是胜利,第四次似乎就要胜利,而最后一次则彻底战败,使日本成为了目前唯一被原子弹袭击过的国家。当我思考日本的战争史的时候,我一直...
评分 评分幽灵 我在日本北部遇到一位僧人,他为在海啸中遇难的人超度亡灵。这些鬼魂要到那年秋天才会大量出现,可是金田禅师在海啸发生后不到两周,就接到第一个超度请求。金田是内陆地区栗原市一座寺庙的住持。3月11日的地震是他本人和他认识的其他人所经历过的最严重的一次。由巨大木...
评分在这本书之前刚好看了《日本人为何选择了战争》,一本剖析日本近百年战争历史的书。短短一个世纪,日本发动了五次大规模对外战争,前三次都是胜利,第四次似乎就要胜利,而最后一次则彻底战败,使日本成为了目前唯一被原子弹袭击过的国家。当我思考日本的战争史的时候,我一直...
评分“有时候,即使我们在现场挖掘寻找尸体,也会聊天,也会为了什么事情大笑。但紧接着,我们又会因为有人看见我们的笑容而感到不自在。”———这是整本书让我觉得最触动的文字。 欧美文化宣扬个性情绪的表达,亚洲更多的是克制与隐忍。作者也在书中表达“我受够了日本人接受现实...
图书标签: 日本 non-fiction 社会学 英文原版 灾难 非虚构 311地震 日本社会
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.
Every disaster deserves such an account.
评分是部窺一斑而見全豹的作品 文筆極佳 多元的視角 沒有非黑即白。最後落腳點在地理環境 制度 以及文化上 兼及日本當下的政治。求穩求全不求變 聲譽和秩序壓倒事實--中日在這點上也算共通。作者用domineering assertiveness形容中國 實在太恰當。都是面子大於裏子的文化。但求變與求穩這兩種 cultural ideology背後的動因如果是自然环境 那書中呈現的問題會有解嗎。
评分海啸亲历者们的回忆让我潸然泪下
评分“Japan had enough serenity and self-restraint. What it needed now was people like the Shitos and the Tadanos and the Suzukis: angry, scathing, determined people, unafraid to step out of the ranks and fight, even if all that the contest amounted to was the losing struggle with death.”
评分灾难的发生,谁不作为?谁该承担起孩子死亡的责任?灾难之后若干年里,人们的心态,行为缓慢地发生着变化,悲伤能有多久,活着的人在灾难发生当时、不久后,需要什么东西?时间一长,他们又需要什么?每个家庭不一样…不知道怎么表达,只有亲自看一下。另外,这个书,中文版有了。
Ghosts of the Tsunami 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书