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The Pine Islands

✍ Scribed by Marion Poschmann

Book ID: 112302749
Tongue: English
Weight: 93 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781770566378

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✦ Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Readers who like quiet, meditative works will enjoy this strangely affecting buddy story." --Publishers Weekly

"Rather than tying up the loose ends, she leaves them beautifully fluttering in the wind, and you do not feel lost in that experience. The writing is poetic and it's worth savouring." --Angela Caravan, Shrapnel

A bad dream leads to a strange poetic pilgrimage through Japan in this playful and profound Booker International-shortlisted novel.

Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message, and unable to even look at her, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet...

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