Mina's matchbox a novel
"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband...
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| 001 | on1410454006 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20241220145400.0 | ||
| 008 | 231129t20242005nyu 000 1 eng | ||
| 010 | |a 2023054198 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780593316085 |q (hardcover) | ||
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| 041 | 1 | |a eng |h jpn | |
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| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 895.6/35 |2 23/eng/20240118 |
| 099 | |a FIC OGA | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Ogawa, Yōko, |d 1962- |e author. |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtGTGDPyjqgxRtb9b7WDq | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Mina's matchbox : |b a novel / |c Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen B. Snyder. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Pantheon Books, |c 2024. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2005 | |
| 300 | |a 280 pages : |c 22 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 546 | |a In English, translated from the Japanese. | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in serialized form in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Yomiuri Shimbun in 2005. Originally published in paperback in Japan as Mina no Koshin by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo, in 2006." | ||
| 520 | |a "In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion-Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end.? Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand-her uncle's mysterious absences, her German grandmother's experience of WWII, and her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time-and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Families |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cousins |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Friendship |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Japan |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Snyder, Stephen, |d 1957- |e translator. |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjFvwHqQ4Rb6YGcc9R7Mbm | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Ogawa, Y¿ko, 1962- |t Mina's matchbox. |b First American edition |d New York : Pantheon Books, 2024 |z 9780593316092 |w (DLC) 2023054199 |
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