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Available
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Publication
Two Lines Press (2020), Edition: Reprint, 160 pages
Description
"Tells the story of a small fishing village in Japan-with the untreated wounds of the town's history in the foreground."--
User reviews
LibraryThing member modioperandi
Echo on the Bay has several just stunningly beautiful passages. It also has a interesting and for me slightly frustrating rambling tone which fits the story: you are reading the account of what a girl retelling an account of a conversation between her father and locals who range from sober,
Echo on the Bay touches on some very uncomfortable territory. It is graphic in some places and details things that I found to be repulsive this said it does so in a way that the book remains readable and it is not just there bluntly like raw meat in the way that, The People in the Trees was. Echo on the Bay is a great read and it is sensitive, disturbing, funny, and magical all at once. Highly recommended. There are some passages that are just stunning there is some serious craft going on here and I am looking forward to the next story in translation from Masatsugu Ono.
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loosened up by drink, to dead drunk and all the while there are flashback-ish scenes that seem to be accounts from the main town gossips 'the silica four' and then on top of all of this actual events are unfolding. There is a lot going on. So the frustration was primarily keeping up with Masatsugu's story and flipping back and forth in the book to reread and reacquaint and make sense of things i thought were happening and then were not but I had misunderstood it. It took a long time to read this short novel. Echo on the Bay touches on some very uncomfortable territory. It is graphic in some places and details things that I found to be repulsive this said it does so in a way that the book remains readable and it is not just there bluntly like raw meat in the way that, The People in the Trees was. Echo on the Bay is a great read and it is sensitive, disturbing, funny, and magical all at once. Highly recommended. There are some passages that are just stunning there is some serious craft going on here and I am looking forward to the next story in translation from Masatsugu Ono.
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LibraryThing member Dreesie
A new police chief has brought his family to a small Japanese town. There is a local election going on, a ghost ship sits in the bay, and his daughter Miki (the narrator) eavesdrops on every conversation between her father and the townspeople that she can.
Both Miki and her father learn why the town
Both Miki and her father learn why the town
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drunk is a drunk--and why his elderly father is always ready to take him home. They learn why the two businessmen (running against each other in the local election, and brothers-in-law) hate each other. Why kids shoot bottle rockets and an elderly lady's home. They learn why others might behave as they do--and why it is largely forgiven. They find out about the shameful things that occurred in the past. And they are actively participating in what future generations will consider shameful... Show Less
LibraryThing member banjo123
This is a slim, dark Japanese novel, narrated by a teen girl, whose father is a policeman, and who is stationed in a small, fishing village. The book starts with a statement about how not much happens in such a small place, but the book is full of odd characters and each one has a backstory, and
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also a relationship to Japanese history. There's a lot in here, not sure I got it all, but glad that I read it. Show Less
Language
Original language
English