{"product_id":"9781805334910","title":"The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest","description":"\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;12 haunting, uniquely crafted short stories about loss and memory from a revered Japanese-Argentine author, available in English for the first time.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt; \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;“Her stories are a transformative experience... Kamiya makes simple what for others is impossible to express.” —\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Clarín\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In 12 stories of exquisite compression and perfectly-formed images, Japanese-Argentine writer Alejandra Kamiya conjures absences, shadows, and all that must remain unsaid.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;As dawn breaks, a woman goes to the market in search of ingredients to make a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, while a subtle note of disquiet grows louder. A Japanese prisoner of war resolutely obeys a command as precise as it is inexplicable: he must dig a pit in a precise location until he receives another command, which never seems to arrive. 2 girls discover themselves through electrically charged games, which they will recall in letters for the rest of their lives.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In prose that is at once serene and shot through with disquiet and mourning, Kamiya creates a fictional world with its own rhythm, where preice, minimal phrasing reveals vast emotional landscapes. Enigmatic yet sharply clear, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; is a book of quietly shattering epiphanies from a unique voice in international fiction.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Revered in Argentina, where her diamond-sharp stories are championed by a legion of booksellers and readers, Kamiya has a strikingly clear and subtle style that will delight fans of Claire Keegan, Yuko Tsushima and Yiyun Li.","brand":"Kamiya, Alejandra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":68263300694228,"sku":"9781805334910","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dbb0d0a6-6f0c-4395-b991-92a8aa30691b.jpg?v=1793639277","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781805334910","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}