Spring Garden - Japanese Novellas Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (1994) Tiger's Quest rings the trio

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Spring Garden - Japanese Novellas Deutscher Krimi Preis for 3. Platz International (1994) Tiger's Quest rings the trioWinner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope. Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave. Since the death of his father, Taro keeps to himself, but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs, Nishi, as she passes on the strange tale of the sky blue