Perfect World of Miwako Sumida - A Novel of Modern Japan

About the author

Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer and translator. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Singapore, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, the UK, and the US. Rainbirds, her debut novel, has been published in eleven different languages. Her second novel, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, came out in 2020. Watersong is her third novel.

Summary

A bewitching novel set in contemporary Japan about the mysterious suicide of a young woman.

Miwako Sumida is dead.

Now those closest to her try to piece together the fragments of her life. Ryusei, who has always loved her, follows Miwako’s trail to a remote Japanese village. Chie, Miwako’s best friend, was the only person to know her true identity — but is now the time to reveal it? Meanwhile, Fumi, Ryusei’s sister, is harbouring her own haunting secret.

Together, they realise that the young woman they thought they knew had more going on behind her seemingly perfect façade than they could ever have dreamed.

Product details

• Authors: Clarissa Goenawan
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.2020
• EAN: 9781913348328
• ISBN: 978-1-913348-32-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Ghost, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / LGBT / Transgender, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Narrative theme: Interior life, Crime & mystery fiction, Horror & ghost stories, Horror & supernatural fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary horror & ghost stories