March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown
Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
6 March 2012
Summary
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 fiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307948861 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307948862 |
| Author: | David Karashima |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 133mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
David Karashima
Elmer Luke is a writer and editor with experience in publishing houses in New York and Tokyo. He has worked with authors such as Tom Wicker, Haruki Murakami, Colleen McCullough, Hiromi Kawakami, and Robert Whiting. He serves as an adviser to the Read Japan project.
David Karashima is an author whose first novel, written in Japanese, received a prize for new writers. He is also a prolific translator of contemporary Japanese fiction into English, with works by Hitomi Kanehara, Taichi Yamada, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Hisaki Matsuura among his translations. In 2008, he co-founded the Read Japan initiative at the Nippon Foundation. This initiative is a collaborative effort involving authors, translators, editors, publishers, and universities, aimed at promoting the publication of Japanese literature in translation.
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