{"product_id":"manazuru-paperback-1","title":"Manazuru - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHiromi Kawakami\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Emmerich\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStartlingly restless and immaculately compact, \u003ci\u003eManazuru\u003c\/i\u003e paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwelve 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 \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. \u003ci\u003eManazuru\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on memory--a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHiromi Kawakami\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eGod\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKamisama\u003c\/i\u003e) was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for \u003ci\u003eTread on a Snake\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eHebi o fumu\u003c\/i\u003e), and in 2001 she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel \u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSensei no kaban\u003c\/i\u003e), which was an international bestseller. The book was short-listed for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 International Foreign Fiction Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllison Markin Powell\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, editor, and publishing consultant. In addition to Hiromi Kawakami's \u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nakano Thrift Shop\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Loves of Nishino\u003c\/i\u003e, she has translated books by Osamu Dazai and Fuminori Nakamura, and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She maintains the database japaneseliteratureinenglish.com.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47248168190201,"sku":"9781640090187","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UndiT0FCZWhiSEJZZmhlTHpicDh6Zz09_089cad0c-feee-4583-a381-fb8daff25d0e.webp?v=1768631354","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/manazuru-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}