Summer at Mount Asama
$41.48
- Paperback
396 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Winner of The Yomiuri Prize for Literature, 2012
The Japanese novel comes of age in this gripping story of love, art and life as a group of architects competes to design the new National Library of Modern Literature in Tokyo.
In 1980s Japan, newly-graduated Toru Sakanishi joins a small, prestigious architecture firm founded by a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. As the sweltering summer months approach, the team migrates from the bustling centre of Tokyo t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917378000 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1917378009 |
| Author: | Masashi Matsuie, Margaret Mitsutani |
| Publisher: | The Indigo Press |
| Imprint: | The Indigo Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 396 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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Masashi Matsuie
Masashi Matsuie began his literary career as a fiction editor for the Shinchosha Publishing Company, where he worked with writers such as Yoko Ogawa, Banana Yoshimoto, and Haruki Murakami and launched Shincho Crest Books. His debut novel, Summer at Mount Asama, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature.
Margaret Mitsutani is a translator of Yoko Tawada and Japan’s 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe. She was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Award for her translation of Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary.
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