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Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed--naively--that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
After a natural disaster, a community comes together and slowly, joy, healing and music find their way back into the city, in this powerful message of resilience and the incredible strength of shared humanity even on the darkest days.
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In...
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