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The Little House
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Darf Publishers Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 94R68LL
EAN: 9781850773160
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Zustellung: Mo, 29.06.2026
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Beschreibung
The Little House is set in the early years of the Showa era (1926-89), when Japan's situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing. On the outskirts of Tokyo, near a station on a private train line, stands a modest European style house with a red, triangular shaped roof. There a woman named Taki has worked as a maidservant in the house and lived with its owners, the Hirai family. Now, near the end of her life, Taki is writing down in a notebook her nostalgic memories of the time spent living in the house. Her journal captures the refined middle-class life of the time from her gentle perspective. At the end of the novel, however, a startling final chapter is added. The chapter brings to light, after Taki's death, a fact not described in her notebook. This suddenly transforms the world that had been viewed through the lens of a nostalgic memoir, so that a dramatic, flesh-and-blood story takes shape. Nakajima manages to combine skillful dialogue with a dazzling ending. The result is a polished, masterful work fully deserving of the Naoki Prize.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Kyoko Nakajima
- Ginny Takemori
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 336