Praise for Mina's Matchbox
A Most Anticipated Book of the Summer from The Atlantic, TIME, and Publishers Weekly
“Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.”
—Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
“The reader is immersed in [Tomoko’s] ardent love for her fragile cousin, and comes to appreciate how history seeps into every life, even the most sheltered ones.”
—The Atlantic
“A transfixing coming of age tale.”
—TIME
Praise for Yoko Ogawa’s Previous Work
“A masterpiece…A rare work of patient and courageous vision.”
—The Guardian on The Memory Police
“Ogawa’s fable echoes the themes of George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own.”
—Time on The Memory Police
“An intimate, suspenseful drama of courage and endurance.”
—The Wall Street Journal on The Memory Police
“Gorgeous, cinematic…This novel has all the charm and restraint of any by Ishiguro or Kenzaburō Ōe, and the whimsy of Murakami.”
—Los Angeles Times on The Housekeeper and the Professor
“Deceptively elegant…This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water. Dive into Yoko Ogawa’s world…and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen.”
—The New York Times Book Review on The Housekeeper and the Professor
“Ogawa’s fiction reflects like a fun-house mirror…[Like] Haruki Murakami, Ogawa writes stories that float free of any specific culture, anchoring themselves instead in the landscape of the mind.”
—Washington Post on The Diving Pool
“The stories seem to penetrate right to the heart of the world…[Ogawa’s] spare technique is very skilled. Every word is put to work.”
—Hilary Mantel on The Diving Pool
“Ogawa has long been recognized as one of Japan’s best writers of the postwar generation.”
—BookForum on The Diving Pool
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940160528168 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 08/13/2024 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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