Richard Lloyd Parry

En el año 2000, poco después de llegar a Tokio para trabajar en un club nocturno, la británica Lucie Blackman, exazafata de vuelo de veintiún años, desapareció. El caso despertó mucho revuelo mediático y activo una busqueda desesperada en la que incluso participaron zahories australianos. Se especulo con la entrada de Lucie en una secta y con su secuestro por una banda de traficantes de organos hasta que salio a la luz su relacion con un misterioso cliente.Fruto de diez años de investigacion, Devoradores de sombras se lee como un thriller que desafia a nuestra credibilidad, pero es tambien un retrato del lado mas sordido de Japon, un drama judicial y la triste historia de una familia enfrentada y de una pobre chica que se encontro con el Mal en estado puro.

*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave.Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? What did her work, as a hostess in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? And could Lucies fate be linked to the disappearance of another girl some ten years earlier?Over the course of a decade, Richard Lloyd Parry has travelled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story and been given unprecedented access to Lucies bitterly divided family to reveal the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate.

A remarkable and deeply moving book Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No HarmA breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fictionTimes Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japans greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the epicentre. Learning about the lives of those affected through their own personal accounts, he paints a rich picture of the impact the tsunami had on day to day Japanese life.Heart-breaking and hopeful, this intimate account of a tragedy unveils the unique nuances of Japanese culture, the tsunamis impact on Japans stunning and majestic landscape and the psychology of its people.Ghosts of the Tsunami is an award-winning classic of literary non-fiction. It tells the moving, evocative story of how a nation faced an unimaginable catastrophe and rebuilt to look towards the future.**WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**

A father is stranded with his baby daughter as violence breaks out in the jungle, in this page-turning and explosive new novelBrilliant, harrowing and heartbreaking, yet utterly compelling David PeaceDeep in a vast tropical rain forest, Kit and Lara escape the hollowness of modern life doing charitable work in a jungle village. With them is their tiny baby, Helen, who flourishes under the anxious care of her father.Their life of idyllic isolation is shattered by the arrival of an outsider with frightening news: close at hand, across the border, violence is looming. Hidden in a tiny memory card, Kit unwittingly holds evidence of the world-shattering event that is unfolding, the desperate power-play of a flailing superpower.Separated from Lara, with war erupting around them, Helen and Kit are forced to flee through the forest with a band of local children, pursued by a ruthless and determined army. Caught between the struggle of rival powers, Kit must keep his baby daughter alive while protecting the secret that his pursuers will kill to get their hands on.Immersive and immensely readable, never not terrifying Richard BeardPraise for the award-winning Ghosts of the Tsunami:A book of absolute, harrowing truth and beauty. Id give up four of my novels to have written this bookJim Crace, author of HarvestEvery time I think of it, Im filled with wonderment... A future classicObserverA remarkable and deeply moving bookHenry Marsh, author of Do No Harm

** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in the world. For thirty-two years it had been paralysed by the grip of the dictator and mystic General Suharto. But now the age of Suharto was reaching its end, giving way to a new era of chaos and superstition - the time of madness predicted centuries before by poets and seers.On the island of Borneo, tribesmen embarked on a savage war of head-hunting and cannibalism. Vast jungles burned uncontrollably; money lost its value; there were plane crashes and volcanic eruptions. After the tumultuous fall of Suharto came the vote of independence from Indonesia for the tiny occupied country of East Timor. And it was here, trapped in the besieged compound of the United Nations, that Lloyd Parry reached his own painful, personal crisis.

Aquesta és la commovedora història dels vius, dels morts i dels seus esperits errants. La història d’una comunitat que va buscar consol i veritat entre les runes. L’any 2011, Richard Lloyd Parry, cor

En el año 2000, poco despues de llegar a Tokio para trabajar en un club nocturno, la británica Lucie Blackman, exazafata de vuelo de veintiún años, desapareció. El caso despertó mucho revuelo mediático y activo una busqueda desesperada en la que incluso participaron zahories australianos. Se especulo con la entrada de Lucie en una secta y con su secuestro por una banda de traficantes de organos hasta que salio a la luz su relacion con un misterioso cliente. Fruto de diez años de investigacion, Devoradores de sombras se lee como un thriller que desafia a nuestra credibilidad, pero es tambien un retrato del lado mas sordido de Japon, un drama judicial y la triste historia de una familia enfrentada y de una pobre chica que se encontro con el Mal en estado puro.