Publication Date: 15/08/2024 ISBN: 9781787302761 Category:

Mina’s Matchbox

Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 15/08/2024 ISBN: 9781787302761 Category:
Hardback

£18.99

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On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.

After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life.

The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle’s magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.

Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.

‘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

‘Dreamy and whimsical’ Esquire, Best Books of the Summer

‘A conspicuously gifted writer. . . She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance’ Guardian

Readers adore Mina’s Matchbox:

‘I was totally swept away by it.’

‘ A beautiful coming of age story. I’d recommend it to any lovers of translated fiction!’

‘Uplifting. And Pochiko, the pygmy hippo? A wonder.’

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