Strangers
Now an award-winning major film
Published on 5. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-571-22437-1 (ISBN)
Description
**NOW A MAJOR FILM - ALL OF US STRANGERS - STARRING PAUL MESCAL, CLAIRE FOY, ANDREW SCOTT AND JAMIE BELL**
'Deeply satisfying. . . a wonderful study of grief and isolation.' Daily Mail
'A sharp, chilling contemporary ghost story.' The Scotsman
'Powerful.' Guardian
'Sexy, insightful and frequently funny.' Irish Examiner
Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.
'Deeply satisfying. . . a wonderful study of grief and isolation.' Daily Mail
'A sharp, chilling contemporary ghost story.' The Scotsman
'Powerful.' Guardian
'Sexy, insightful and frequently funny.' Irish Examiner
Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.
Reviews / Votes
"'A cerebral and haunting ghost story... Highly recommended.' David Mitchell 'A memorably uncanny tapestry... The powerful mood of Strangers lingers long after its graceful, downbeat ending has passed.' Guardian 'A disconcerting, yet deeply satisfying novel: a wonderful study of grief and isolation, a moving expression of our longing for things we have lost and are unable to have again.' Daily Mail 'Quickly paced, intelligent and haunting.' Bret Easton Ellis"More details
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
173 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-22437-1 (9780571224371)
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Taichi Yamada worked at the world-renowned Shochiku film studios until he set out on a highly successful career as a freelance scriptwriter and novelist. Winner of the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for the best human-interest novel, Strangers is his English-language debut. Wayne P. Lammers grew up in Japan as the child of missionaries, and is now an independent Japanese-to-English translator working out of Portland, Oregon, focusing mainly on literary and cultural materials. Born in Ohio and raised in Japan, he has been bilingual since childhood. He is the author of two books and has published a dozen full-length translations, including work by Junzo Shono (one of Kojima's contemporaries), Taichi Yamada, Shintaro Ishihara, Mitsuya Kakuta, Aska Mochizuki, and Ooka Shohei. Lammers holds an MA and PhD in Japanese Language and Literature and is the recipient of a PEN West Literary Award for Translation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (Modern), an NEA Translation Grant, and a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship