{"product_id":"the-boy-kyrmen-pakem-9798283930459","title":"The Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA haunting literary debut about memory, grief, and the quiet unraveling of a man in the shadow of Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKibou lives in a small apartment at the edge of a city that never stops moving. His days pass in silence-working a thankless job, smoking on the balcony, avoiding the gaze of a wife he no longer understands. But everything changes the night he sees a boy standing alone in the rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrenched and wordless, the boy follows him home. Yet when Kibou tries to explain, his wife insists the boy was never there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Kibou struggles to distinguish memory from illusion, the city begins to echo with fragments of a life he's tried to forget: the death of a child, the collapse of a marriage, and the dreams he left behind long ago. Haunted by the past and hunted by something unnamed, Kibou finds himself slipping between worlds-where time stutters, people vanish, and the rain never ends.\u003c\/p\u003eThe Boy in the Rain is a psychological and surreal meditation on the weight of regret, the fragility of identity, and the eerie space between reality and delusion. For readers of Kafka, Murakami, and José Saramago, this novel will linger like a whisper in the dark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kyrmen Pakem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798283930459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.16d","brand":"Kyrmen Pakem","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49169440506111,"sku":"9798283930459","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-boy-kyrmen-pakem-9798283930459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}