Editorial Transworld
Fecha de edición abril 2025 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780857529657
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Brimming with suspense and heartbreak, the million copy Japanese magical realist mystery for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR. When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the GoBetween, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world at least, this is what Hirase has pieced together from his website page.Ushered into a luxury hotel to await her meeting, the GoBetween lays down the groundrules: the reunion lasts one evening under a full moon the dead person cannot be called back by anyone else, and may refuse to meet.Four more characters will go to a reunion: a woman struggling with low selfworth finds the TV star who once helped her an elder son, regretful of his greed, sees his deceased mother a young woman reunites with the rival whose death she deliberately caused a weary salary man meets to solve the mystery of his missing girlfriend. With each gripping story, clues are scattered like gems for the reader to piece together the emotional truth behind.
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