In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disaster, its aftermath, and the resolve of a people to rebuild. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Hereeighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to...
In time for the one year anniversary of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, a collection of essays and stories by Japanese writers on the devastating disast...
Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow 'rat-a-tap, tapping' his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze's steps, Cat resolves to travel abroad and tread wheat alongside this stranger when he becomes an adult. But first, Cat must grow up in the small port town where he lives with his timpanist grandfather and a father irrevocably obsessed with an unsolved mathematical proof, and which, as part of the series of increasingly surreal events that characterize his life, Cat rescues from a plague of rats by his imitating the yowls of his namesake, the cat. The...
Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow 'rat-a-tap, tapping' his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze's steps,...
