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送り火
Okuribi
“Sending-Off Fire” (title translated by AI)
Hiroki Takahashi (高橋弘希, born 1979)
English editions
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In spring, before his last year of junior high, Ayumu moves from Tokyo to a small hill town in the far north, where his school is so small it is to merge with another next year. In his class Akira settles everything with hanafuda cards, and Minoru always loses and has to buy the drinks. Used to changing schools, Ayumu believes he fits in, and in summer Akira invites him to a local rite of setting fires adrift on the river.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 120 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Japan
- First published
- 2018 by Bungeishunju
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9784163908731 (original)