Translucent Tree
$40.73
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2008
Summary
Chigiri Yamazaki is a divorced single mother who has returned to Tsurugi City with her 11-year-old daughter to care for her ailing father, a famous sword maker whose business has completely faltered. It falls upon Chigiri to keep debt collectors at bay.
Go Imai, a freelance documentary maker, is on a business trip from Tokyo and has decided to stop by this little town of Tsurugi, where he had come to do a story on Chigiri’s father 25 years ago. Go reunites with Chigiri, and the two be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781934287149 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1934287148 |
| Author: | Nabuko Takagi |
| Publisher: | Vertical Inc. |
| Imprint: | Vertical Inc. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 190mm |
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Critics Review
“Translucent Tree left this reader with a feeling of pure insight into Japan, not unlike the movies of Hayao Miyazaki… This is a romance, a love story, and nothing is lost in translation.” — Los Angeles Times
“Translucent Tree is impossible to label as simply romance. What I found was something more tuned-in with reality, especially a Japanese reality, but certainly human first.” –Mecha Mecha Media
“I found Translucent Tree engrossing ” –Katherine Dacey
“A story of a convincing, mature relationship which ends, despite its sort of fumbling beginnings, with deep love, respect, and eroticism.” – Library Thing
Nabuko Takagi
Nobuko Takagi was born in 1946. Since her debut as a novelist in the early 1980s, she has written prolifically and has been the recipient of several literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize (the Japanese equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) in 1984.
Takagi is perhaps best known for her explorations of the theme of love in its many guises: pure love, married love, extra-marital affairs, and love triangles. Her investigation of the workings of the mind often focuses on the dark side of human nature.
Other literary awards she has won include:
- The Women’s Literature Award (1995)
- The Tanizaki Junichiro Award (1999) for Translucent Tree
- The Minister of Culture Award (2006)
Many of her works have been translated and published in China and Taiwan. Translucent Tree was adapted into a film in Japan, where it met with huge success.
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