March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: HIS021000, NAT023000, NAT009000
ISBN: 9780307948878, Related ISBNs: 0307948862, 0307948870, 9780307948861, 9780307948878
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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.
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