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The Place of Shells - Softcover

Ishizawa, Mai

 
9780811237789: The Place of Shells
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811237788 ISBN 13: 9780811237789
Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography of medieval saints. She waits at the train station to meet her old friend from graduate school, Nomiya, who died nine years earlier in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, but has suddenly reemerged without any explanation.When Nomiya arrives, the narrator guides him through Göttingen’s scale model of the solar system, talking about her studies, her roommate and their mutual friends. Yet it isn’t long before his spectral presence in the city begins to fray the narrator’s psyche and destabilize the world beyond: eerie discoveries are made in the forest, Pluto begins disappearing and reappearing, and snags run in time’s fabric. The narrative continues to spiral and unfold to include the Japanese physicist Terada Torahiko, mysteriously sprouting teeth, Saint Lucia, all set against the ever-lingering presence of death.The Place of Shells

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mai Ishizawa was born in 1980 in Sendai City, Japan, and currently lives in Germany. Her debut novel, The Place of Shells, won the Akutagawa Prize.

Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese translator based in Bristol. Her translations include Aoko Matsuda's Where the Wild Ladies Are, Kikuko Tsumura's There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job, and Tomoka Shibasaki's Spring Garden. In 2019, she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her debut book Fifty Sounds. Her second book, Porn: An Oral History, is forthcoming.

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Verlag
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811237788
ISBN 13 
9780811237789
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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