![]() Annabelle spirals downhill: her mental and physical health fade, she is overweight and overbuys, she hoards and is threatened with eviction. When his Japanese jazz musician father is hit by a truck and dies, his life with his mother Annabelle unravels. It seems despairing yet is an elating and highly memorable novel, with intriguing conceits and fascinating, unconventional characters and relationships. While not set in Japan, it has some Japanese content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally I prioritised reading Ozeki’s new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness (Text Publishing). I seek out novels by Japanese authors (Ozeki’s mother is Japanese) and beautifully conceived novels set in Japan such as A Tale for the Time Being by Ozeki, The Snow Kimono by Mark Henshaw (Text Publishing, which I have reviewed ), Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell, The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness and the novels of Liane Moriarty and Haruki Murakami. ![]()
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