The Little House (Paperback)

The Little House is set in the early years of the Showa era (1926-89), when Japan's situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing. On the outskirts of Tokyo, near a station on a private train line, stands a modest European style house with a red, triangular shaped roof. There a woman named Taki has worked as a maidservant in the house and lived with its owners, the Hirai family. Now, near the end of her life, Taki is writing down in a notebook her nostalgic memories of the time spent living in the house. Her journal captures the refined middle-class life of the time from her gentle perspective. At the end of the novel, however, a startling final chapter is added. The chapter brings to light, after Taki's death, a fact not described in her notebook. This suddenly transforms the world that had been viewed through the lens of a nostalgic memoir, so that a dramatic, flesh-and-blood story takes shape. Nakajima manages to combine skillful dialogue with a dazzling ending. The result is a polished, masterful work fully deserving of the Naoki Prize.

General

Imprint:	Darf Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2019
Authors:	Kyoko Nakajima
Translators:	Ginny Takemori
Dimensions:	193 x 124 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-85077-316-0
Subtitles:	Japanese
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	1-85077-316-5
Barcode:	9781850773160

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