Strangers

Blurb

Strangers is a novel by Taichi Yamada, published in 1987. The English translation by Wayne Lammers was published in 2003.
The Japanese original won the 1987 Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for best human-interest novel. The English translation was one of sixteen works long-listed for the 2006 Foreign Fiction prize awarded by The Independent.
Ijintachi to no natsu has also been translated into German as Sommer mit Fremden, French as Présences d'un été and Swedish as Främlingar.
A movie based on the novel and directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko was released in 1988.