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The book recounts the story of Deraniyagala's life before the tsunami struck the coast, and how it changed dramatically after the disaster, primarily focusing on life without her five most important family members, including her parents, her husband, and her two sons. [4]
Before the 1854 tsunami struck Hiro (now Hirogawa), Goryo Hamaguchi lit fire to sheaves of rice (inamura) to help guide villagers to safety.This event appeared in the 1897 story "A living god" by the Greek-born writer Lafcadio Hearn, which combined the events in Hiro with the events of the 1896 Sanriku earthquake that struck Honshu. [2]
Following the tsunami, she was taken to her aunt's house in Colombo. There, she stayed beneath the covers of her cousin’s bed, hoarding sleeping pills for comfort and solace; she attempted to stab herself with a butter knife and smashed her head on the sharp corner of the wooden headboard of the bed in reaction to the trauma of the tsunami.
Monica Connelly survived the Indian Ocean Tsunami at age 13 in 2004. 19 years later, in 2023, she published a memoir about her experience.
The killer tsunami had completely flattened the base. The water rose by 12 metres here and as most people slept, the ground was pulled away from under their feet. A hundred people died here.
A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.
Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone is a 2017 non-fiction book written by Richard Lloyd Parry, an English reporter who lived in Japan and reported about events there for years before the 2011 Japanese tsunami, in particular, the fatal decision-making leading to the drowning of the 74 students and 10 teachers of Ogawa Elementary School (石巻市立大川小学校).
Norsiah was well-known for her 2009 collection of short tales Tsunami di Hatinya (Tsunami in Her Heart) and her book Pengabdian, which was released in 2010 in its seventh edition. In honor of Brunei's independence day, the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) held a novel writing contest, with her debut book Pengabdian taking first place. [3]
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