Spring Garden [electronic resource]
Tomoka Shibasaki2017
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Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and
thwarted hope
'He'd come to realise that it was a mistake to grind up his father's remains
with such a thing. The mortar was lined with narrow grooves, a little too
perfect for ashes to get stuck in.'
Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few
occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon as the
remaining tenants leave. Since the death of his father, Taro keeps to himself,
but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs, Nishi,
as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next door.
First discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book 'Spring Garden', the
sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi and Taro: of what is lost, of
what has been destroyed, and of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of
them, if only they can seize it.
Tomoka Shibasaki was born in 1973 in Osaka and b...
Main title:
Spring Garden [electronic resource] / Tomoka Shibasaki
Author:
Tomoka Shibasaki, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pushkin Press, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (300 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781782272731
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
446716
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