Manazuru

Resumen del libro

Twelve years have passed since Kei's husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three-year-old daughter. Her new relationship with a married man--the antithesis of Rei--has brought her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother and daughter have spilled into routine, day after day. Kei begins making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place that jogs her memory to a moment in time she can never quite locate. Her time there by the water encompasses years of unsteady footing and a developing urgency to find "something."
Through a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. "Manazuru" is a meditation on memory--a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members. Both startlingly restless and immaculately compact, "Manazuru" paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.

Biografía del autor

Hiromi Kawakami (Tòquio, 1958) va estudiar Ciències naturals i va ser professora de Biologia fins que el 1994 aparegué la seva primera novel-la. Els seus llibres han estat guardonats amb els premis literaris més prestigiosos, que l" han convertida en una de les escriptores japoneses més llegides actualment. Quaderns Crema ha publicat les seves novel-les El cel és blau, la terra blanca (2001; Quaderns Crema, 2009), que va rebre el Premi Tanizaki, Allò que brilla com el mar (2003; Quaderns Crema, 2010) i El senyor Nakano i les dones (2005; Quaderns Crema, 2012), així com el llibre de relats Abandonar-se a la passió (1999; Quaderns Crema, 2011).