Manazuru

Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.

Twelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three-year-old daughter. Her new relationship with a married man–the antithesis of Rei–has brought her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother and daughter have spilled into routine, day after day. Kei begins making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place that jogs her memory to a moment in time she can never quite locate. Her time there by the water encompasses years of unsteady footing and a developing urgency to find something.

Through a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. Manazuru is a meditation on memory–a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members.

Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 11/14/2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781640090187
Language: English