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Into the Forbidden Zone
β Scribed by Vollmann, William T
- Book ID
- 108303472
- Publisher
- Byliner Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781614520030
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β¦ Synopsis
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 Japanβa 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.
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