Mina's matchbox : a novel / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: [Toronto] : McClelland & Stewart, 2024.Edition: Hardcover edDescription: 280 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780771019890 (hardcover)
- Mina no koshin. English
- [Fic] 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Fiction | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Fiction | FIC OGA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 10/08/2024 | 33321003259034 |
"Originally published in serialized form in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005. Originally published in paperback in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Chuokoron- Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo, in 2006"--Copyright page.
"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home--and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company--are symbols of that status ... The family is just as beguiling as their mansion--Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end"-- Provided by publisher.
Translated from the Japanese.
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