SYNOPSIS
A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before.
Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he’s drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building.
One night, when Harada returns to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada’s ordeal, thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died many years earlier.
MY THOUGHTS
This is truly one of the most interesting books I've read this year.
It's one of the books that I'd be interested in anyway due to the plot of seeing your deceased loved ones....I mean we all know how much I enjoy books related to death and dying. Yamada covers death, grief and loneliness in such a simple but profound way. The novel is rather short, but it packs a punch with some twists and turns that I didn't see coming.
I do wish there was more of a reason as to WHY he was seeing his dead parents, because I don't think I got an answer from that unless I missed it.
This is another book that will stay with me.
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