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The Woman, the Boy, and the Whale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798217186549)
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xTHE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
MADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM "A love letter to those who've always felt out of step with the world." --Mikki Brammer, bestselling author of The Collected Regrets of Clover A deeply moving story about the unexpected bond between a woman who has fled her hard Tokyo life for a seaside village and a young boy who cannot speak. When Kiko escapes her grim life in Tokyo for a rural village by the sea, the locals can't help but question her intentions. Rumors start to fly and wariness spreads. Except nothing can be more painful than where Kiko came from. Then, one day, Kiko stumbles across a boy who cannot speak. He's shy and timid, a little wary himself. But when Kiko shares with him the tale of the 52-hertz whale--a creature whose voice rings through the vastness of the sea, but who cannot be heard, no matter how loud it sings--the boy lets her in on his own story, revealing the moment that he stopped singing and launching them on a journey to reclaim the boy's voice--and in the process, recover what it means to be heard. Devastatingly tender and filled to the brim with humanity, The Woman, The Boy, and The Whale is a nuanced, heartfelt story of hope, survival, and the life-changing force of connection, and the incredible masterpiece that launched Sonoko Machida as an internationally bestselling author.
Author: Sonoko Machida
ISBN-13: 9798217186549
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2027
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
WINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
MADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM "A love letter to those who've always felt out of step with the world." --Mikki Brammer, bestselling author of The Collected Regrets of Clover A deeply moving story about the unexpected bond between a woman who has fled her hard Tokyo life for a seaside village and a young boy who cannot speak. When Kiko escapes her grim life in Tokyo for a rural village by the sea, the locals can't help but question her intentions. Rumors start to fly and wariness spreads. Except nothing can be more painful than where Kiko came from. Then, one day, Kiko stumbles across a boy who cannot speak. He's shy and timid, a little wary himself. But when Kiko shares with him the tale of the 52-hertz whale--a creature whose voice rings through the vastness of the sea, but who cannot be heard, no matter how loud it sings--the boy lets her in on his own story, revealing the moment that he stopped singing and launching them on a journey to reclaim the boy's voice--and in the process, recover what it means to be heard. Devastatingly tender and filled to the brim with humanity, The Woman, The Boy, and The Whale is a nuanced, heartfelt story of hope, survival, and the life-changing force of connection, and the incredible masterpiece that launched Sonoko Machida as an internationally bestselling author.
Author: Sonoko Machida
ISBN-13: 9798217186549
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2027
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
By Sonoko Machida
xSonoko Machida won the influential Japan Booksellers' Award in 2021 with her much-loved novel 52-Hertz Whales, retitled in English as The Woman, the Boy and the Whale, which has sold over one million copies in Japan alone and was made into powerful and hugely acclaimed film. This translation into English by Sam Bett is long awaited. Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1980, Sonoko Machida graduated from school to become a hairdresser. While in her twenties, she realized she had a strong wish to write stories. Her most recent book to be translated into English is The Convenience Store by the Sea. Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. A winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize, he has translated work by Osamu Dazai, Izumi Suzuki, Yukio Mishima, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Mieko Kawakami, including books shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the International Booker Prize. As the translator of The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, he was awarded a CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation. Sam is also a recipient of the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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