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Mina's matchbox / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.

Ogawa, Yōko, 1962- (author.). Snyder, Stephen, 1957- (translator.). Ogawa, Yōko, 1962- translation of: Mīna no kōshin. English. (Added Author).

Summary:

"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home -- and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company -- are symbols of that status. ... The family is just as beguiling as their mansion -- Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780771019890 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 280 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: Hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : McClelland & Stewart, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in serialized form in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005. Originally published in (trade paperback) in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo, in 2006.
Language Note:
Translated from the Japanese.
Subject: Cousins > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Mansions > Fiction.
Pygmy hippopotamus > Fiction.
Storytelling > Fiction.
Ashiya-shi (Japan) > Fiction.
Japan > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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