Mina's Matchbox: A Novel - Couverture souple

Ogawa, Yoko

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593313410 ISBN 13 : 9780593313411

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025

Synopsis

From the award-winning author of The Memory Police and The Housekeeper and the Professor, a hypnotic novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

"A story of first enchantments and last gasps...Effervescent." --New York Times Book Review

"A transfixing coming of age tale." --TIME

"One of the literary events of the year." --Parade

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home--and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company--are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion--Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.

In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life. Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand--her uncle's mysterious absences, her great-aunt's experience of the Second World War, her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time--and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

YOKO OGAWA has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her works include The Memory Police, The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas; The Housekeeper and the Professor; Hotel Iris; and Revenge. She lives in Ashiya, Japan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593313410
• ISBN 13: 9780593313411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 289
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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