小川 洋子

This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York Times Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one …

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a …

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the …

耳縮小手術専用メス、シロイワバイソンの毛皮、切り取られた乳首...「私が求めたのは、その肉体が間違いなく存在しておったという証拠を、最も生々しく、最も忠実に記憶する品なのだ」―老婆に雇われ村を訪れた若い博物館技師が死者たちの形見を盗み集める。形見たちが語る物語とは?村で頻発する殺人事件の犯人は?記憶の奥深くに語りかける忘れられない物語。 …

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a …