The pine islands
Poschmann, Marion, 1969-2020
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When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the poet to see the moon rise over the pine islands of Matsushima. Falling into step with another pilgrim - a young Japanese student called Yosa, clutching a copy of 'The Complete Manual of Suicide' - Gilbert travels with Yosa across Basho's disappearing Japan, one in search of his perfect ending and the other the new beginning that will give his life meaning.
Main title:
The pine islands / Marion Poschmann ; translated by Jen Calleja.
Author:
Poschmann, Marion, 1969-, authorCalleja, Jen, translator
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2020.
Collation:
180 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.This translation originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9781788160926 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
1912343
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