An unsettling, poignant story about two troubled strangers finding refuge in each other during the pandemic
As coronavirus spreads, paranoia overtakes a quiet northern Japanese town. People keep strict social distance, they disinfect their groceries and doorknobs, they fear-especially anyone from a teeming city. In these tense, antiseptic circumstances, two odd loners meet.
One bears the burden of possibly causing a protestor's death, the other worries her behaviour led to a student's suicide. In their remote lives, there is no relief. But then an unlikely connection begins to grow between them.
As the world collapses around them, can they become one another's refuge?
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Deeply unsettling * Asian Review of Books *
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Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 191 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-80533-005-9 (9781805330059)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kumi Kimura is a Japanese writer. She won the Literary World Newcomer Award for her debut novel, and has subsequently been shortlisted twice for the Akutagawa Prize and won the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize. Someone to Watch Over You is her first work to be translated into English.
Yuki Tejima is a writer and translator from Los Angeles who is currently based in Tokyo. She grew up reading books in English and Japanese, and writes about them and the wonderful Japanese bookstores she encounters at @booknerdtokyo.
