Description
After her mother’s death, a young woman relocates to Tokyo to rebuild her life as a graphic artist, only to find her days stretching into quiet, watchful solitude. Across the street, she notices a young man who seems to share her habit of staring out the window—an encounter that slowly ripens into a tentative romance shadowed by what neither of them can fully name. As she visits his friends, who live a monastic life near a serene lake, she begins to connect unsettling clues to a childhood trauma and a secret that reaches beyond personal grief. Blending Banana Yoshimoto’s signature clarity and emotional immediacy with a darker, more mysterious edge, the novel explores love as redemption, the persistence of memory, and the ways communities and silence can both conceal and heal.
Available Editions
paperback
Melville House
Published May 3, 2011
185 pages
ISBN: 9781935554691
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Details
First Published
2002
Language
jpn
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto.