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Mina's Matchbox

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288 Seiten
Englisch
Vintage Publishingerschienen am15.08.2024
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina´s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.Praise for Mina's Matchbox 'I read Mina´s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.' RUTH OZEKI, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness'Dreamy and whimsical, Mina´s Matchbox traffics in the themes at which Ogawa always excels: memory, identity, and nostalgia' Esquire, Best Books of the Summer 'A conspicuously gifted writer. . . To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state. . . She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Evokes the secret crushes and crushing secrets of girlhood with charm and elegance´ People Immersive and poignant. . . filled with wonder´ BookpageReader Reviews I was totally swept away by it.´ It's a beautiful coming of age story. I'd recommend it to any lovers of translated fiction!´ Uplifting. And Pochiko, the pygmy hippo? A wonder.´ A beautiful coming of age story´mehr
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KlappentextOn sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina´s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.Praise for Mina's Matchbox 'I read Mina´s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.' RUTH OZEKI, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness'Dreamy and whimsical, Mina´s Matchbox traffics in the themes at which Ogawa always excels: memory, identity, and nostalgia' Esquire, Best Books of the Summer 'A conspicuously gifted writer. . . To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state. . . She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Evokes the secret crushes and crushing secrets of girlhood with charm and elegance´ People Immersive and poignant. . . filled with wonder´ BookpageReader Reviews I was totally swept away by it.´ It's a beautiful coming of age story. I'd recommend it to any lovers of translated fiction!´ Uplifting. And Pochiko, the pygmy hippo? A wonder.´ A beautiful coming of age story´
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-78730-276-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum15.08.2024
Seiten288 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 146 mm, Höhe 217 mm, Dicke 32 mm
Gewicht400 g
Artikel-Nr.15353697
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GenreRomane Hardcover

Autor

Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.

He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino's Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?