Description
Twelve years after her husband Rei vanishes, Kei lives in a carefully maintained numbness—her days arranged around a new relationship, a mother-daughter routine, and the quiet weight of what she cannot remember. When she begins making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, the shoreline becomes a strange catalyst, stirring fragments of a moment in time she can’t quite reach and drawing her toward an urgency that grows with each return. Blending the surreal with the faintly grotesque, the novel moves with poetic precision, turning memory into both landscape and mystery. At its heart, it’s a tender meditation on love and family—how absence reshapes intimacy, and how the past refuses to stay buried.
Available Editions
paperback
Counterpoint Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
224 pages
ISBN: 9781640090194
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Translation
From: jpn
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami.