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Takehiko Fukunaga 
Flowers of Grass 

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Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure and dies in the process, two notebooks turn up in his bed-sheets. Flowers of Grass unfolds as the narrator reads them, asking himself if Shiomi’s death was a sort of suicide, and learning the details of his late friend’s two great loves: for a brother and sister, both of whom reject him.

Fukunaga himself spent seven years recuperating from tuberculosis following World War II, and drew on his own experiences to create a fully realized portrait of a young man of fastidious intelligence and great sorrow, and how it is possible, seeing reality from the side of death and despair, to still choose life.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 328 ● ISBN 9781564787491 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Translator Royall Tyler ● Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3178185 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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