Yoko Ogawa: Mina's Matchbox, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Mina's Matchbox
- Translation:
- Stephen Snyder
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 08/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529933536
- Item number:
- 12224269
- Volume:
- 288 Pages
- Weight:
- 200 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 7.8.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. 'Beguiling' New Yorker
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.
While the 1970s transform Japan, her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion is a place out of time; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pet pygmy hippo. Equally beguiling are Tomoko's relatives, especially her cousin Mina. Their growing friendship draws her into an intoxicating world - one full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.
Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.
'Beautifully composed' Financial Times 'Effervescent' New York Times Book Review 'Transfixing' Time 'I read Mina's Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end' Ruth Ozeki
Biography (Yoko Ogawa)
Yoko Ogawa, 1962 in Okayama geboren, lebt mit ihrer Familie in Ashiya. Sie ist Autorin von zahlreichen Romanen und gilt als eine der wichtigsten japanischen Autorinnen ihrer Generation. Für ihr Werk wurde sie mit vielen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet, zuletzt mit dem begehrten Yomiuri-Preis.
