Parade Kawakami Hiromi
Parade Kawakami Hiromi A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . "Tell me a story from long ago," Sensei says. An ethereal, resonating literary gift (Booklist, starred…
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Parade Kawakami Hiromi
A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . "Tell me a story from long ago," Sensei says. An ethereal, resonating literary gift (Booklist, starred review) from the internationally bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together.
They had human bodies, long noses, and wings. "I wasn't alive long ago," Tsukiko says, "but should I tell you a story from when I was little?" "Please do," Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room, arguing with each other. They were tengu, creatures that appear in Japanese folktales.The tengu attach themselves to Tsukiko and begin to