{"product_id":"manazuru-a-novel","title":"Manazuru: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHiromi Kawakami\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStartlingly restless and immaculately compact, \u003ci\u003eManazuru\u003c\/i\u003e paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwelve years have passed since Kei’s husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three–year–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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003esomething\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough a poetic style embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges from these dark moments. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eManazuru\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a meditation on memory—a profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships between lovers and family members.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nekoto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806256529682,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/7072\/0786\/files\/F4B20D5D-0B80-49D9-B54E-60F7CB11E24C.jpg?v=1766001239","url":"https:\/\/nekotobooks.com\/products\/manazuru-a-novel","provider":"Nekoto Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}