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Lantern of Lost Memories

Sanaka Hiiragi
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781035023639
  • Weight: 156g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

A cosy, uplifting Japanese novel about rediscovering ourselves through our most cherished memories. For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

If you could relive one day of your life, which would it be?

Imagine waking up in a cosy photo studio in the mountains, between this world and the next. A kind man hands you a hot drink and a stack of photographs, one from every day of your life. They capture your best days and your worst, memories you treasure and those you try to forget.

Then, you are asked to pick one photograph from each year to be placed in a beautiful Japanese lantern, to be set spinning so that your life will flash before your eyes.

Like our most thumbed-over photos, our favourite memories can be tarnished in time too, so Hirasaka guides the guests back in time to relive one special day over again, to take a fresh photo and find peace.

Reader's love Sanaka Hiiragi's The Lantern of Lost Memories:

'If you love the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, you must read this'
'This book is a real treat for your soul'
'A comfort read I will turn to again and again'
About Sanaka Hiiragi
Sanaka Hiiragi was born in 1974 in the Kagawa Prefecture. She graduated from Kobe Women’s University, majored in literature and completed her studies at Himeji Dokkyo University. After living and working overseas as a Japanese language teacher for seven years, her debut novel, The Battle of Marriage Island, was nominated for the Konomys Award in 2012 and was chosen as ‘The Hidden Jade’ by the editors in 2013. She is a big fan of cameras, photography and kimono art. The Lantern of Lost Memories is her first novel to be published in English.

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