The Summer House - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Masashi Matsuie, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)Publish date:2025-06-17Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781635425178ISBN-10:1635425174UPC:9781635425178Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Psychological, Nature & the EnvironmentBook Topic:JapanSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCRPFZS9B1
The Summer House
This prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of modern Japan through a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo. Tōru Sakanishi is a recent university graduate who joins the prestigious Murai Office, a small architecture firm founded by Shunsuke Murai, former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. A sensitive and observant narrator, Sakanishi is...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781635425178ISBN-10:1635425174UPC:9781635425178Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Psychological, Nature & the EnvironmentBook Topic:JapanSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCRPFZS9B1
Masashi Matsuie began his literary career as a fiction editor for the Shinchosha Publishing Company, where he worked with writers such as Yoko Ogawa, Banana Yoshimoto, and Haruki Murakami and launched Shincho Crest Books, an imprint specializing in translations of foreign works. His debut novel, The Summer House, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, an award that normally goes to seasoned...
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