The Place of Shells by Ishizawa, Mai
The Place of Shells by Ishizawa, Mai

The Place of Shells

In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase...
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Author: Mai Ishizawa
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Language: English
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The Place of Shells by Ishizawa, Mai

The Place of Shells

$32.15
The Place of Shells by Ishizawa, Mai

The Place of Shells

$32.15
Author: Mai Ishizawa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of G?ttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography of medieval saints. She waits at the train station to meet her old friend from graduate school, Nomiya, who died nine years earlier in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan, but has suddenly reemerged without any explanation.

When Nomiya arrives, the narrator guides him through G?ttingen's scale model of the solar system, talking about her studies, her roommate and their mutual friends. Yet it isn't long before his spectral presence in the city begins to fray the narrator's psyche and destabilize the world beyond: eerie discoveries are made in the forest, Pluto begins disappearing and reappearing, and snags run in time's fabric. The narrative continues to spiral and unfold to include the Japanese physicist Terada Torahiko, mysteriously sprouting teeth, Saint Lucia, all set against the ever-lingering presence of death.

With a literary style reminiscent of W. G. Sebald, Yoko Tawada, and Yu Miri, The Place of Shells is a hypnotic, poetic novel that explores the ebbing and flowing of memory, its physical manifestations, its strange and sudden metaphors, and the overwhelming stranglehold of trauma.



Author: Mai Ishizawa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780811237789
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