WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'
New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 T
•hoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed'
Yoko Ogawa, author of
The Memory Police'Here we find a form of language that attempts to venture, dancing, into a past enveloped in silence'
Yoko Tawada, author of
The Last Children of Tokyo'An eerie, shimmering fever dream . . . strange and beautiful'
Jenny Mustard, author of
Okay DaysAt a train station in Germany, a Japanese student meets an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the T
•hoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned.
The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquility of Göttingen. Yet Nomiya's arrival destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie discoveries are made in the forest and, as the past becomes increasingly vivid, the threads of time threaten to unravel.
Seitenumfang: 160 Seiten
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