Name: Strangers
ISBN: 9780571224364

Taichi Yamada

Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, this book is a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a jaded TV scriptwriter, runs into his long-dead parents one night, he enters the womb of a city whose living inhabitants have perhaps lost their souls. Can Harada save his?

Strangers

Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.

Sarah Escorsa

I just love Japanese literature! Everytime I read a book by a Japanese author, no matter what the genre or theme, I'm absolutely enchanted, which was definitely the case here:) I don't what I liked most here, the writing style, the atmosphere, the characters... I just loved it all!

Strangers

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