A Tale for the Time Being
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inner life
inner turmoil
Japanese culture
modern Japan
Murakami
Rainbirds
search for answers
secret life
Set in Japan
Starling Days
Strange Weather in Tokyo
suicide in literature
surrealism
The Memory Police
whydunit
Product details
- ISBN 9781913348847
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2021
- Publisher: Scribe Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A bewitching novel set in contemporary Japan about the mysterious suicide of a young woman.
Miwako Sumida is dead.
Now those closest to her try to piece together the fragments of her life. Ryusei, who always loved Miwako, follows her trail to a remote Japanese village. Chie, her best friend, was the only person to know her true identity — but is now the time to reveal it? Meanwhile, Fumi, Ryusei’s sister, has her own haunting secret.
Together, they realise that the young woman they thought they knew had more going on than they could ever have dreamed.
Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer and translator. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Singapore, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, the UK, and the US. Rainbirds, her debut novel, has been published in eleven different languages. Her second novel, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, came out in 2020. Watersong is her third novel.
