Mina's Matchbox

On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars 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. ''Beguiling'' New Yorker ''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

Info autore

Yoko Ogawa

Relazione

[A] beautifully composed novel... [and] elegant translation... Ogawa has turned a deceptively simple account of a year spent with exotic relatives into something closer to a universal fable about the precarious wonder of growing up Financial Times

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yoko Ogawa, Ogawa Yoko
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Snyder (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781529933536
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-3353-6
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945); Japan, FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1970 to c 1979, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary