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About this book
The March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged Japan lasted a mere six minutes. But the falloutāthe aftershocks, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the country-wide devastationāfrom this catastrophic event and the trauma experienced by those who survived it is ongoing, if not permanent.In Ganbare! Workshops on Dying, Polish writer and reporter Katarzyna Boni takes us on a journey through the experience of death and how the livingāthose of us left behindālearn to grieve. In Ganbare!, some learn how to scuba-dive for the sole purpose of recovering their loved one's remains; some compile foreign-language dictionaries of "prohibited, " tsunami-related words so they don't have to think of them in their mother tongue; many believe in the lingering presence of the ghosts of those whom the wave claimed for itself. Whatever their methods, whatever their mechanisms, whatever their degree of success, the survivors Boni gives voice to in Ganbare! provide an intimate, soul-aching, and above all human look at how people come to deal with loss, trauma, and death.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Japanese Tales of Horror
- Garbage
- The City That Is Not There
- What Lies Under the Water?
- The Four Tsunamis of Mr. SatÅ
- If People Were Dragons
- Mr. Frog Gives Warning
- The North
- Dictionary of Prohibited Words
- Cremations
- Non-Memory
- Survival Kit
- Grandma Abe
- Expired
- A White Spot
- Go Ahead and Complain
- Call Me
- Disappointment
- What You Dream About in TÅhoku
- Who Will You Become After You Die
- Ghosts
- The Shadow
- Kampai!
- The Atom
- Boom!
- Kami
- The Future
- The New Japanese Bestiary
- The Island of Happiness
- The Most Beautiful Village in Japan
- The North Wind
- The Lament
- Yuna
- Clean Our Land
- Monuments
- One Bowl of Rice
- Have a Good Cry
- Mr. Matsumura Does Not Feel Alone
- Death in Tokyo
- Examine Yourself
- The Boundary
- The Zone
- Homecomings
- An Empty Sound
- Questions
- A Beautiful Sunny Day
- The Workshops on Dying
- Acknowledgments
- Sources