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| Title Statement | Mina's matchbox / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. |
|---|---|
| Alternative Title(s) | Mina's match-box |
| Author | Ogawa, Yoko, 1962- |
| Additional Contributors | Snyder, Stephen,1957- |
| Ogawa, Yōko,1962- | |
| Publication | Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart,2024. |
| Edition | Hardcover edition. |
| Extent of Item | 280 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780771019890 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07667508 |
| General Notes | Originally published in serialized form in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005. Originally published in (trade paperback) in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo, in 2006. |
| Languages | Translated from the Japanese. |
| Summary | "In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home -- and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company -- are symbols of that status. ... The family is just as beguiling as their mansion -- Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Cousins--Fiction |
| Families--Fiction | |
| Friendship--Fiction | |
| Mansions--Fiction | |
| Pygmy hippopotamus--Fiction | |
| Storytelling--Fiction | |
| By Location | Ashiya-shi (Japan)--Fiction |
| Japan--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
| Bildungsromans | |
| Domestic fiction | |
| Novels | |
