The Place of Shells
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Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a masterful novel about loss and
memory in the aftermath of a horrifying ecological disaster In the
summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the
first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the
German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography
of medieval saints. She waits at the train station to meet her old
friend from graduate school, Nomiya, who died nine years earlier in
the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, but has suddenly
reemerged without any explanation. When Nomiya arrives, the
narrator guides him through Göttingen’s scale model of the solar
system, talking about her studies, her roommate and their mutual
friends. Yet it isn’t long before his spectral presence in the city
begins to fray the narrator’s psyche and destabilize the world
beyond: eerie discoveries are made in the forest, Pluto begins
disappearing and reappearing, and snags run in time’s fabric. The
narrative continues to spiral and unfold to include the Japanese
physicist Terada Torahiko, mysteriously sprouting teeth, Saint
Lucia, all set against the ever-lingering presence of death. With a
literary style reminiscent of W. G. Sebald, Yoko Tawada, and Yu
Miri, The Place of Shells is a hypnotic, poetic novel that explores
the ebbing and flowing of memory, its physical manifestations, its
strange and sudden metaphors, and the overwhelming stranglehold of
trauma.
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New Directions Publishing Corporation ,
Mai Ishizawa
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New Directions Publishing Corporation,
Mai Ishizawa
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Slovart
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