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Lädt ... Seventeen (2018)von Hideo Yokoyama
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Yuuki was appointed the desk lead for the JAL crash. He made mistakes, wrong judgments, rubbed people the wrong way but stood up for what he thinks is right and fought for it. In the process, he earned the respect of his colleagues, including those he had been at loggerheads with for years. Because of one decision, he had to be relegated to a one-man desk in a small village but he continues to write and to report. The secondary storyline is about the relationship between Yuuki and his son. Yuuki had always yearned for a tight relationship with his son, he tried and he thought he didn't succeed until Rintaro told him otherwise. Unbeknown to him, his son was very happy when Yuuki invited him to go for hikes together, and he had also treasured the regular hikes with him. I am sure we all feel happy for Yuuki. It’s 12 August 1985. Journalist Kazumasa Yuuki is trying to wrap up his work at the North Kanto Times so he can head off for a weekend climbing with his colleague Kyoichiro Anzai. They plan to tackle the demanding Tsuitate rock face on Mount Tanigawa, something far more challenging than anything Yuuki’s attempted before. However, just as he’s about to leave the office, he and his colleagues hear a shocking news report. A Japan Airlines jumbo jet carrying 524 people has disappeared from the radar; soon, news comes that it has crashed into a ridge near Mount Osutaka, with almost complete loss of life. The staff of the paper are stunned into silence. This is on their patch. Suddenly their small provincial paper is on the front line for the deadliest airline crash in history. Hideo Yokoyama’s novel covers the seven days that follow, as the editorial staff struggle to overcome internal factions to deal with the crash. Based on the true story of the Japan Airlines Flight 123, and inspired by Yokoyama’s own experiences working as a reporter for a regional newspaper in Gunma Prefecture at the time, this is a sobering and thoughtful story about rising to meet challenges – both in and out of the office... For the full review, please see my blog: https://theidlewoman.net/2020/04/16/seventeen-hideo-yokoyama/ keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2002. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues' lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week - one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents Yuuki's final, unconquered fear. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Yuuki's attempts to do this gigantic story justice meet resistance from all quarters, and he ends up in a series of escalating confrontations as he tries to do the right thing in terms of both the gravity of the event and the impact on bereaved families and survivors. His chosen methods get a lot of his more conservative management and colleagues offside, and he begins to question his own motives and effectiveness.
While he is caught up in this drama, Yuuki also has to deal with family troubles and a crisis with one of his friends.
As with Six Four, Yokoyama excels at capturing the internecine office politics in Japanese companies. In his preceding book, the political games were being played out with a police media liaison officer and crime reporters; this time his setting is within a regional newspaper office. Yokoyama is a former journalist himself, which lends his story significant verisimilitude. This is a very different and affecting novel. ( )