Mina's matchbox / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
"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. |
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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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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lakeshore Branch | FIC Ogawa | 31681010385490 | FICTION | Available | - |