The Forest of Wool and Steel
Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award
$24.57
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2020
Summary
Million-copy bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, chosen as the title bookshop staff most wanted to hand-sell. A feel-good, uplifting novel for fans of A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler.
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
“A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life” - Japan Times
What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing … It was life-making.
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784162986 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784162981 |
| Author: | Natsu Miyashita, Philip Gabriel |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Natsu Miyashita
Natsu Miyashita
NATSU MIYASHITA was born in Fukui Prefecture on Honshu island, Japan, in 1967. She has had a lifelong passion for reading and writing and has played the piano since she was very young. THE FOREST OF WOOL AND STEEL won the influential Japan Booksellers’ Award, in which booksellers vote for the title they most enjoy to hand-sell. It has also been turned into a popular Japanese film directed by Kojiro Hashimoto and starring Kento Yamazaki.
Philip Gabriel
Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. He has translated many novels and short stories by Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is the recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore.
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