The Healing Hippo Of Hinode Park
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- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2025
Summary
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park: A Novel of Hope and Connection
Nestling at the bottom of a five-storey apartment block is the children’s playground, Hinode Park. If you look to the side, standing on stubby legs, is a hippo. Its upturned eyes give it a teary look, yet for decades, its quiet power has sustained the hearts of one community.
Meet the neighbours who will reach out to the hippo:
- Kanato presses his head to the hippo’s cheek, hoping to recover the st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529949766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529949769 |
| Author: | Michiko Aoyama, Takami Nieda |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Doubleday |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 137mm x 24mm |
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If you’re after a feel-good tale, this story about a community who find comfort in a stubby hippo statue in a children’s playground is for you. * Red *
About The Author
Michiko Aoyama
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. She is the author of the multi-million-copy bestselling What You Are Looking For is in the Library, translated by Alison Watts, which was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. Matcha on Monday is a companion read to the author’s debut, Hot Chocolate on Thursday. Both are set in and around the fictitious Marble Cafe, a tiny community cafe in Tokyo. Another book available in English by Aoyama and translated by Takami Nieda is the international bestseller The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park. Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.
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