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Spring Garden

Spring Garden

Shibasaki, Tomoka
Barton, Polly

Paperback

Series: Japanese Novellas, Book 2

General FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1782272704
ISBN13: 9781782272700
Publisher: Pushkin Pr
Published: Nov 7 2017
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize

A sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope set in modern-day Tokyo--an unflinching . . . powerful showcase of the best in contemporary Japanese literature (Shelf Awareness)

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.

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