WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE 'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tōhoku 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 In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Göttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tōhoku...