縫わんばならん

On an island off Nagasaki, Keiko, eighty-four, drifts through one night in shallow sleep, between dreams and recollection. Her husband died before they had been married ten years; she kept a little shop, brought up three children and gave her youngest, Miho, to be raised in her older brother's household, and now she worries over letting Miho know the roof of the deserted family home has sprung a hole. The next part turns to Tazuko, the sister who left, changed homes many times and married in Osaka. Then relatives gather when Saeko, the brother's widow, dies, and many voices pool their memories of the Yoshikawa clan across some 130 years, from Bungoro, a man of the Meiji era, to his great-great-grandchildren.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

138 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2016 by Shinchosha

Author's age

28 when first published

ISBN

9784103507413 (original)