Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Rathbones Folio Prize · 2018 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2018 | Winner |
About This Book
Richard Lloyd Parry's account of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and its aftermath focuses on the Okawa Elementary School, where seventy-four children and ten teachers died despite having twelve minutes' warning. Piecing together what happened from the accounts of survivors and bereaved parents, the book won the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2018.
About the Author
Richard Lloyd Parry is a British journalist and author born in 1966. He has been Asia Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief of The Times for over twenty years and has covered wars, disasters, and politics across Asia. He is the author of People Who Eat Darkness (2011), an account of the murder of a young British woman in Tokyo that won several nonfiction awards. Read more →
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