背高泡立草

Nami Omura cannot see the point: her mother's old family home on a small fishing island off Nagasaki stands empty, so why must anyone clear the weeds from its barn? Her mother waves the question away, and Nami goes anyway, crammed into a car with an uncle, aunts, her cousin Chika and her grandmother, whose chatter in island dialect barely stops. Over a single day of cutting goldenrod and grass, the island's past keeps surfacing. Woven into the family's day are other people who once passed through: emigrants leaving for Manchuria before the war, a ship carrying people back to Korea after it, whalers of the Edo period, and a boy paddling a canoe today.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

143 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2019 by Shueisha

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9784087717105 (original)