T.J.M. Holden epub Tsunami (The 3-11 Trilogy, Band 1)

Japan. March 11, 2011.The day of “triple disaster”. A millennial event. A cataclysm beyond comprehension. In less than an hour, the 4th-largest earthquake in history begat a 40-meter tsunami which begat nuclear meltdown, and produced mind-numbing numbers: 15,881 deaths. 6,152 injured. 2,584 missing. Hundreds of thousands displaced. The world’s second-worst nuclear catastrophe. Its costliest ecological calamity. One whose economic, environmental, health and psychological consequences are still felt a decade on.TSUNAMI recounts this manifold tragedy in nine interlinked, first-person narratives. Everyday folk—memorable protagonists—who endured nature’s mercurial wrath and persevered: a train conductor, a kelp harvester, an English teacher, a salaryman, a nuclear engineer, a translator, a reporter, a grieving mother, a university professor. Strangers whose path intertwine as they navigate history. Their tales hit the reader with the power of a seventy-foot wave, the bracing sting of icy salt water. Character-driven and action-packed, intimate and panoramic, lyrical, mesmerizing and rich in cultural detail. Along with its companion volumes in THE 3-11 Trilogy—ESCAPE FROM SONOYO and … AND THE WORLD SHIFTED—TSUNAMI presents a universal story of human response to misfortune. A paean to the human spirit, it pays tribute to capacity, will, compassion, sacrifice, cooperation, resilience, faith, redemption and transcendence.