Isbn: 9780593316085 - mina's matchbox: a novel (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them."A story of first enchantments and last gaspsEffervescent.' New York Times Book Review"Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina's Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end." Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and EmptinessIn the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent homeand handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink companyare symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansionTomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life.?Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understandher uncle's mysterious absences, her great-aunt's experience of the Second World War, her aunt's misery.?Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in timeand a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 288 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | "In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home--and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company--are symbols of that status. . The family is just as beguiling as their mansion--Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end"--.…

Zustand: New. YOKO OGAWA has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in&#8239The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her works include&#8239The Memory Police, The Diving Pool, a collection of three .