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百花

百花

Contemporary LiteratureLiterary Fiction
Pages
299
Published
2019
Language
Japanese

Synopsis

When Izumi returns home for New Year's Eve, he finds his mother, Yuriko, missing. He discovers her on a swing in a park, marking the beginning of her descent into dementia. As Yuriko's memories fade, Izumi cares for her, reliving their shared past and confronting a deeply buried event that once caused him to feel he had 'lost' his mother before. He reaches into this sealed past, seeking to understand what truly remains when everything else is forgotten.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

SadEmotionalMelancholicReflective
Family SagaDual Timeline

Genres

Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction

About the author

G
Genki Kawamura

Genki Kawamura (川村元気) is an internationally bestselling author. If Cats Disappeared from the World was his first novel and has sold over two million copies in Japan and has been translated into over fourteen different languages. His other novels are Million Dollar Man and April Come She Will. He has also written children's picture books including Tinny & The Balloon, MOOM, and Patissier Monster. Kawamura occasionally produces, directs, and writes movies, and is a showrunner.

Characters

IzumiProtagonist
YurikoSupporting
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