Name: Manazuru
Price: 673.00 TWD
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Author: Kawakami, Hiromi ; Emmerich, Michael
ISBN: 9781640090187

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by

Michael Emmerich

Publisher

Counterpoint LLC

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781640090187

Synopsis "Manazuru"

Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future. Twelve years have passed since Kei's husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three-year-old daughter. Her new relationship with a married man--the antithesis of Rei--has brought her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother and daughter have spilled into routine, day after day. Kei begins making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place that jogs her memory to a moment in time she can never quite locate. Her time there by the water encompasses years of unsteady footing and a developing urgency to find something. Through a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. Manazuru is a meditation on memory--a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members.

Hiromi Kawakami

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Hiromi Kawakami (Tokyo, 1958) is an acclaimed Japanese writer, awarded with prestigious prizes such as the Akutagawa and the Tanizaki. Her works, among which "The Briefcase" and "The Ten Loves of Nishino" stand out, subtly explore the complexities of human relationships.

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