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Sixty Years From Now
Paperback
RomanceScience FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some rooms remember.
Tan Shulin comes to Kanazawa to be alone on purpose - a year-long craft residency, a rented wooden house, a relationship she let end quietly. What she doesn't expect is the voice that arrives at night from the far side of the futon: a young lacquer craftsman named Sōta, speaking of plum blossoms, dying trades, and a father who never mentions the war.
He tells her the date the Tokyo Olympics begin. He tells her the date her own country will lose half its name. He is telling the truth - from sixty-two years in the past.
For one year, night after night, two people build an entire life across an impossible distance, until the residency ends, the room falls silent, and Shulin flies home believing it was only ever a beautiful dream.
Then she meets his sister. Learns his name. Learns that he wrote every single night down. And that he died one month before she arrived.
Sixty Years From Now is a quiet, devastating literary love story about the objects we build to outlast us, the fidelity that looks like madness from the outside, and the kind of love that costs everything and asks for nothing back.
For readers of The Time Traveler's Wife, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and The Remains of the Day.
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