The place of shells
Ishizawa, Mai, 1980-2025
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In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Göttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tohoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned without any explanation. The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquillity of Göttingen. Yet Nomiya's spectral presence destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie discoveries are made in the forest and, as the past becomes increasingly vivid, the threads of time threaten to unravel.
Main title:
The place of shells / Mai Ishizawa ; translated by Polly Barton.
Author:
Ishizawa, Mai, 1980-, authorBarton, Polly (Translator), translator
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2025.
Collation:
160 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
Awards:
Akutagawa Prize
ISBN:
9781399750387 (hbk. :)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
8573622