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Availability:In StockContributor:Hiromi Kawakami, Michael Emmerich (Translator)Publish date:2017-11-14Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640090187ISBN-10:1640090185UPC:9781640090187Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Small Town & Rural, WomenSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB31VD55C
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640090187ISBN-10:1640090185UPC:9781640090187Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Small Town & Rural, WomenSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB31VD55C
Hiromi Kawakami was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first book, God (Kamisama) was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for Tread on a Snake (Hebi o fumu), and in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban), which was an international bestseller. The book was short-listed for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize.

Allison Markin Powell is a translator, editor, and publishing consultant. In addition to Hiromi Kawakami's Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop, and The Ten Loves of Nishino, she has translated books by Osamu Dazai and Fuminori Nakamura, and her work has appeared in Words Without Borders and Granta, among other publications. She maintains the database japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

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