Manazuru
Paperback/Fiction 224 pages English Nov 14, 2017
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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.
- Author:
- Hiromi Kawakami, Michael Emmerich
- Publisher:
- Counterpoint
- Publication Date:
- Nov 14, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 224 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 1640090185
- ISBN-13:
- 9781640090187