圖書標籤: 日本 non-fiction 社會學 英文原版 災難 非虛構 311地震 日本社會
发表于2024-12-23
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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.
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.
“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.”
評分Every disaster deserves such an account.
評分對去個體化責任的洞悉,雖是老調,但結閤東日本大事件及本書涉及的後續事件,則更令人相信這不關乎右派,或是保守主義,而是植根於文化,乃至語言之中的。喜歡作者對日語結構的解構分析,或許是個索緒爾信徒。
評分一個很好的例子,天災往往是人禍。明明孩子是可以避過海嘯的,但卻因為學校對災難應對的疏忽和老師sb而幾乎全死瞭。之後教育局、校長和唯一倖存的老師都逃避責任,始終沒有承認疏忽。但另一方麵,也是日本人那種聽話守紀律的性格害死瞭自己。作者忍不住錶達自己的看法,認為日本需要憤怒、有決斷、敢於打破常規和敢於鬥爭的人。這對中國很有藉鑑意義。中國人也一樣,聽話不反抗,能忍耐埋藏憤怒,而且容易好瞭傷疤忘瞭疼,得過且過,所以災難纔一次又一次重現。人類世界在走下坡路,因為我們依然墨守成規,不願意改變和平年代的安逸思路。但地球已經在報復已經在改變瞭。。。
評分幾乎從頭到尾都在流淚 這是今年讀過最難過的一本書瞭
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評分文 | 堀田江理 译 | 笑 原文地址:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/16/ghosts-of-tsunami-japan-disaster-richard-lloyd-parry-review 在日本,糟糕的政治也被看作一种“自然灾难”,一种“普通人无法干预的集体的不幸”,只能“无助地接受它、容忍它”。 日本东北...
評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...
評分 評分2011年3月11日,地震发生约五十分钟后,黑色的海水逆流延新北上川袭来,一波接一波的巨浪吞噬了距离河口约五公里的宫城县石卷市大川小学。海啸发生时有七十八个孩子在校,其中七十四个孩子遇难,当时在校内的十一名老师中有十人不幸遇难。 图片来源:富士电视台 “大川小学孩子...
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