A01=Alejandra Kamiya
Author_Alejandra Kamiya
Buenos Aires
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female friendship
fiction in translation
immigration
Japanese Argentine
Japanese heritage
motherhood
short stories
Tokyo
Product details
- ISBN 9781805334910
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In a very few, perfectly chosen words, Alejandra Kamiya conjures vast territories of shadow: all that we can never fully express.
As dawn breaks, a woman prepares to make a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, while a subtle note of disquiet grows louder. An isolated Japanese soldier obeys an inexplicable command, and his sense of identity begins to dissolve. Two girls discover themselves through electrically charged games, which they will recall in letters for the rest of their lives.
Set between Japan and Argentina, these entrancing stories of loss and exile circle around our deepest, most mysterious emotional truths, culminating in startling moments of revelation.
Alejandra Kamiya is a Japanese-Argentine writer. Born in Buenos Aires, she has published three collections of short stories and won numerous awards for her writing, including the Horacio Quiroga Award and the Konex Award. The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest is her first book to be translated into English.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator with around a hundred books to his name. His work includes translations from Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. He is the winner of the 2023 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.
