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Translucent Tree
  • Published: 15 February 2008
  • ISBN: 9781934287149
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $39.99

Translucent Tree

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23 Jan 2024
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15 Feb 2008
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A ravishing love story on the scale of The English Patient or Ian McEwan's earlier works, Takagi is also frequently compared to Marguerite Duras. With the added patina of Asian sensibilities, The Transluscent Tree is one of the grandest literary love stories in Japanese history sure to strike a chord with American readers too.

Chigiri Yamazaki is a divorced single mother who has returned to Tsurugi City with her 11 year old daughter to care for her ailing father--a famouse sword maker whose business has completely faltered. It falls upon Chigiri to keep dept collectors at bay.

Go Imai, a freelance documentary maker, is on a business trip from Tokyo and has decided to stop by this little town of Tsurugi, where he had come to do a story on Chigiri's father 25 years ago. Go reunites with Chigiri, and the two begin a love story of epic consequence and passion reminiscent of the works of Marguerite Duras and Alice Munro, set against the backdrop of bucolic Japan.
  • Published: 15 February 2008
  • ISBN: 9781934287149
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $39.99
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