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Sonoko Machida - Woman, the Boy and the Whale, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Woman, the Boy and the Whale

Av Sonoko Machida

190 kr

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The mega-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award and author of THE CONVENIENCE STORE BY THE SEA: a deeply moving novel about trauma, connection, and the courage to begin again. For fans of Matt Haig and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLDReaders adore THE WOMAN, THE BOY AND THE WHALE:'I read this in a single sitting and it saved me from the loneliness I had in my heart' *****'A wonderful, beautiful story of what is both ugly and precious about humanity' *****Some voices go unheard. This is what happens when one is finally foundWhen Kiko escapes her hard Tokyo life for a rural village by the sea, the locals can't help but question her intentions. Rumours start to fly and wariness spreads. Except nothing can be more painful than where Kiko came from. Then, one day, Kiko stumbles across a boy who cannot speak. He’s shy and timid, a little wary himself.But when Kiko shares with him the tale of the 52-hertz whale - a creature whose voice rings through the vastness of the sea, but who cannot be heard, no matter how loud it sings - the boy begins to let her in on his own story, revealing the moment that forced him to stop singing and setting them on a journey to reclaim the boy’s voice, and to recover what it means to truly be heard.Devastatingly tender and filled to the brim with humanity, The Woman, The Boy, and The Whale is a nuanced, heartfelt story of hope, survival, and the life-changing force of connection, and the incredible masterpiece that launched Sonoko Machida as an internationally bestselling author.______MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARDMADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-04
  • Mått: 130 x 204 x 40 mm
  • Vikt: 750 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781529934939
  • Översättare: Sam Bett
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Sonoko Machida (Author) SONOKO MACHIDA won the influential Japan Booksellers’ Award in 2021 with her much-loved novel 52-Hertz Whales, retitled in English as The Woman, the Boy and the Whale, which has sold over one million copies in Japan alone and was made into powerful and hugely acclaimed film. This translation into English by Sam Bett is long awaited. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1980, Sonoko Machida graduated from school to become a hairdresser. While in her twenties, she realized she had a strong wish to write stories. Her most recent book to be translated into English is The Convenience Store by the Sea.Sam Bett (Translator) Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. A winner of the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize, he has translated work by Osamu Dazai, Izumi Suzuki, Yukio Mishima, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Mieko Kawakami, including books shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the International Booker Prize. As the translator of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, he was awarded a CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. Sam is also a recipient of the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.sambett.net

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A love letter to those who've always felt out of step with the world, THE WOMAN, THE BOY, AND THE WHALE tackles difficult themes with heartfelt tenderness and gentle irreverence. Sonoko Machida’s empathetic rendering of her characters reminds us that everyone, flawed as they may appear, deserves compassion.

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