Mariko Nagai, Richard Lloyd Parry

Literature Live: Mariko Nagai and Richard Lloyd Parry
Japan Now

Celebrate UNESCO City of Literature International Mother Language Day (IMLD).

How do writers – both natives and ‘outsiders’ - respond to tragedy and recount the lived experience of survivors?
Mariko Nagai's latest book Irradiations, sifts through landscape and history to present the contemporary life of four Japanese cities, each marked by catastrophe.

Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts Of The Tsunami is a painstaking dispatch from the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the spiritual and psychological landscape left in its wake, described as ‘a brilliant, unflinching account’ by Rachel Cooke in the Observer.

Together the books present a poignant picture of Japanese society today.