Mina's Matchbox

✍ Scribed by Yoko Ogawa; Stephen B. Snyder

• Book ID: 115323143
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 574 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593316092

✦ Synopsis

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police , a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
"Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina 's Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end." --Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home--and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company--are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings;...