Manazuru
  • Published:
    Sep-2010 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2017 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    224
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Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.

Twelve years have passed since Kei's husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her threeâ€"yearâ€"old daughter. Her new relationship with a married man -- the antithesis of Rei -- has brought her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother and daughter have spilled into routine, day after day. Kei begins making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place that jogs her memory to a moment in time she can never quite locate. Her time there by the water encompasses years of unsteady footing and a developing urgency to find something.

Through a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. Manazuru is a meditation on memory -- a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Nov-2017
    • Counterpoint LLC
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1640090185
    • ISBN13: 9781640090187
    •  
    • Sep-2010
    • Counterpoint LLC
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1582436002
    • ISBN13: 9781582436005
    •  
    • Sep-2010
    • Counterpoint LLC
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1582436274
    • ISBN13: 9781582436272
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Counterpoint
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1582438560
    • ISBN13: 9781582438566
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Counterpoint
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Counterpoint Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1640090193
    • ISBN13: 9781640090194
    •  
    • Nov-2017
    • Counterpoint
    • eBook (Kindle)



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