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Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan

Tekijä: William T. Vollmann

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Just weeks after multiple disasters struck Japan, National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann ventures into the nuclear hot zone, outfitted only with rubber kitchen gloves, a cloth facemask, and a capricious radiation detector. In this Byliner Original from the digital publisher Byliner, Vollmann emerges with a haunting report on daily life in a now-ravaged Japan-a country he has known and loved for many years. And in the cities and towns hit hardest by the earthquake, tsunami, and radioactive contamination, Vollmann finds troubling omens of a future heading toward us all.ABOUT THE AUTHORWilliam T. Vollman is the author of nine novels, including "Europe Central," winner of the National Book Award. He has also written three collections of stories, a memoir, and five works of nonfiction, including, most recently, "Imperial" and "Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater." His epic treatise on violence, "Rising Up and Rising Down," was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Center USA West Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.… (lisätietoja)

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A little investigation into the hot zone of Fukushima and the flooded environs. Floods, temperamental dosimeters, and meditations on Buddha and the atom.

It feels strange to read a Vollmann this short - I wonder if there are parts excised, and if they will be released later. (

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HadriantheBlind | Mar 29, 2013 |

A new concept: the Kindle Singles. Short books or long essays, it's just how you see it, on current topics that can be downloaded for a few dollars. I tried Into the forbidden zone.

The author visits Japen, shortly after the earthquake (last spring); he visits the area around Fukushima. He is not completely at ease when he leaves home, so he tries to arrange a Geiger counter. If that really works is still somewhat unclear, but better something than nothing.

It's an honest essay about his own fears, along with the lack of any fear with the most Japanese. They have been evacuated (if they should), but don't worry too much. And I found that quite shocking in a country where nuclear bombs have fallen.

The story contains some repetition and a lot of built up tension is broken a bit too quickly broken perhaps. On the other hand, the story is recent. In a year I would probably not matter to me anymore. Then prefer this rougher version.

http://boekenwijs.blogspot.com/2011/06/into-forbidden-zone.html (

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boekenwijs | Jun 28, 2011 |

A short book or long piece of reporting, a la Harper's, on the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. It has some sharp writing, and it's economical with descriptions (reminiscent, in that regard, of Edmund Wilson), but it also displays Vollmann's tics: he doesn't quite get the right dosimeter to measure radiation; he masters some aspects of the math of radioactivity, but not others (two footnotes disagree on the dosage in an ordinary X-ray); he complains about the amount he has to pay his informants, but lets the issue hang; he has a problematic translator, whose character isn't quite explored; he transcribes inconclusive interviews in the name of thick description; he meanders without clear purpose; he stops without clear reasons; he uses his license as an accomplished writer to excuse unexpected, unconnected digressions; and he gives the piece an irrelevant novelistic structure by framing it in terms of increasing radiation.

(If you haven't read Vollmann, he is a spectacular novelist. "The Rifles" is amazing, and many of the 1,000-plus pages of "Imperial.") (

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JimElkins | May 9, 2011 |

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Just weeks after multiple disasters struck Japan, National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann ventures into the nuclear hot zone, outfitted only with rubber kitchen gloves, a cloth facemask, and a capricious radiation detector. In this Byliner Original from the digital publisher Byliner, Vollmann emerges with a haunting report on daily life in a now-ravaged Japan-a country he has known and loved for many years. And in the cities and towns hit hardest by the earthquake, tsunami, and radioactive contamination, Vollmann finds troubling omens of a future heading toward us all.ABOUT THE AUTHORWilliam T. Vollman is the author of nine novels, including "Europe Central," winner of the National Book Award. He has also written three collections of stories, a memoir, and five works of nonfiction, including, most recently, "Imperial" and "Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater." His epic treatise on violence, "Rising Up and Rising Down," was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Center USA West Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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