{"product_id":"the-place-of-shells-mai-ishizawa-9781399750424","title":"The Place of Shells","description":"WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed'Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police'Here we find a form of language that attempts to venture, dancing, into a past enveloped in silence'Yoko Tawada, author of The Last Children of Tokyo'An eerie, shimmering fever dream . . .  strange and beautiful'Jenny Mustard, author of Okay DaysAt a train station in Germany, a Japanese student meets an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tohoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned.   The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquility of Göttingen. Yet Nomiya's arrival destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie discoveries are made in the forest and, as the past becomes increasingly vivid, the threads of time threaten to unravel.","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988706820384,"sku":"9781399750424","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781399750424_3047143.jpg?v=1784181989","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-place-of-shells-mai-ishizawa-9781399750424","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}