Things Remembered and Things Forgotten

In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past. Her stories have been made into films and praised by Sayake Murata, author of Convenience Store Woman. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness.