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.
| ISBN: | 9781640090187 |
| Publication date: | 14th November 2017 |
| Author: | Hiromi Kawakami |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press an imprint of Catapult |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Narrative theme: Sense of place Family Drama |