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Facing the Wave audiobook
- By: Gretel Ehrlich
- Narrator: Sumalee Montano
- Category: Natural Disasters, Nature
- Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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Facing the Wave Audiobook Summary
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water.
The stories of rice farmers, monks, and wanderers; of fishermen who drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a song that only she still remembered are both harrowing and inspirational. Facing death, facing life, and coming to terms with impermanence are equally compelling in a landscape of surreal desolation, as the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power complex, spews radiation into the ocean and air. Facing the Wave is a testament to the buoyancy, spirit, humor, and strong-mindedness of those who must find their way in a suddenly shattered world.
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Facing the Wave Full Details
| Narrator | Sumalee Montano |
| Length | 6 hours 11 minutes |
| Author | Gretel Ehrlich |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780804193702 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Facing the Wave is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: natural, for, disaster, books, adults, kids, weather, solace in open spaces, biography, japanese, nature, sociology, world history, biographies, science books, japanese history, environmental science, autobiographies, wildlife, biographies of famous people, nature books, history, history books, science, japan, politics, political books, asian, autobiography, asia, earth day books, japanese mythology, history of japan, sociology books, natural disasters, history gifts, natural disaster, japanese culture, gifts for history buffs, Nature, Natural Disasters, Social Science, Disasters & Disaster Relief, History, Asia, Japan The BISAC Subject Code is Natural Disasters, Nature
Additional info
The publisher of the Facing the Wave is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780804193702.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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