音に聞く

After their mother dies in Japan, two sisters travel to Vienna to see their father, Kita, a Japanese man who has made his name there as a master of music theory. Both are already making careers of their own: Uchiko, the elder, as a translator, Mana as a musician. Kita has no fatherly words for them and says nothing about his dead wife; all he wants is to teach Mana, who has followed him into music. Uchiko, who lives by words rather than sound, finds herself shut out. Long disenchanted with Japanese, she is drawn to German and its wealth of consonants. Mana, for her part, makes no secret of her revulsion at the father who lords it over her as a musician, and keeps away from him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

141 pages in the original

Set in

Austria

First published

2019 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

27 when first published

ISBN

9784163911335 (original)