カブールの園

Rei is thirty-eight, a third-generation Japanese American programmer who has set up a tech firm in Silicon Valley with a friend. At primary school in the 1980s she was bullied without mercy and called a pig, and she still relies on tranquillisers and treatment for the trauma. Her bond with her mother, a second-generation immigrant, is just as fraught. With a Black colleague she is sent out to pitch the company's product, a cloud system that links musicians around the globe, until she is told to take leave ahead of a major deal. Meaning to go to Yosemite, she drives her blue Ford instead toward Manzanar, the wartime camp that once held her grandparents, and on to Little Tokyo, where her mother lives alone.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

206 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

First published

2016 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9784163905938 (original)