The Forest of Wool and Steel by Natsu Miyashita - ISBN: 9781784162986
Paperback
Piano tuning awakens a soul: finding purpose in a mystical forest.

The Forest of Wool and Steel

Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award

$29.81

  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    4 February 2020

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Summary

Million-copy bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, chosen as the title bookshop staff most wanted to hand-sell. A feel-good, uplifting novel for fans of A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler.

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

“A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life” - Japan Times

What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing … It was life-making.

Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784162986
ISBN-10:1784162981
Author:Natsu Miyashita, Philip Gabriel
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Black Swan
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:4 February 2020
Weight:161g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 14mm
About The Author

Natsu Miyashita

Natsu Miyashita

NATSU MIYASHITA was born in Fukui Prefecture on Honshu island, Japan, in 1967. She has had a lifelong passion for reading and writing and has played the piano since she was very young. THE FOREST OF WOOL AND STEEL won the influential Japan Booksellers’ Award, in which booksellers vote for the title they most enjoy to hand-sell. It has also been turned into a popular Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki.

Philip Gabriel

Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. He has translated many novels and short stories by Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is the recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.

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