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The Place of Shells

Name: The Place of Shells
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780811237789

Mai Ishizawa

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Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a masterful novel about loss and memory in the aftermath of a horrifying ecological disasterIn the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography of medieval saints. She waits at the train station to meet her old friend from graduate school, Nomiya, who died nine years earlier in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, but has suddenly reemerged without any explanation.When Nomiya arrives, the narrator guides him through Göttingen's scale model of the solar system, talking about her studies, her roommate and their mutual friends. Yet it isn't long before his spectral presence in the city begins to fray the narrator's psyche and destabilize the world beyond: eerie discoveries are made in the forest, Pluto begins disappearing and reappearing, and...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

New Directions

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2024043471

ISBN 13:

9780811237789