The Boy - Couverture souple

Pakem, Kyrmen

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798283930459

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

A haunting literary debut about memory, grief, and the quiet unraveling of a man in the shadow of Tokyo.

Kibou lives in a small apartment at the edge of a city that never stops moving. His days pass in silence—working a thankless job, smoking on the balcony, avoiding the gaze of a wife he no longer understands. But everything changes the night he sees a boy standing alone in the rain.

Drenched and wordless, the boy follows him home. Yet when Kibou tries to explain, his wife insists the boy was never there.

As Kibou struggles to distinguish memory from illusion, the city begins to echo with fragments of a life he’s tried to forget: the death of a child, the collapse of a marriage, and the dreams he left behind long ago. Haunted by the past and hunted by something unnamed, Kibou finds himself slipping between worlds—where time stutters, people vanish, and the rain never ends.

The Boy in the Rain is a psychological and surreal meditation on the weight of regret, the fragility of identity, and the eerie space between reality and delusion. For readers of Kafka, Murakami, and José Saramago, this novel will linger like a whisper in the dark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798283930459
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 66
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