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Taichi Yamada

    Taichi Yamada stands as one of Japan's most celebrated and esteemed literary figures. While widely recognized for his compelling television drama scripts, his prolific output also includes numerous novels and plays, earning him significant accolades. Yamada delves into the intricacies of the human psyche, exploring complex relationships and the subtle currents that shape our lives. His narrative voice is characterized by a keen observational skill and a profound empathy, offering readers resonant insights into the universal experiences of connection and isolation.

    In Search of a Distant Voice. Auf der Suche nach einer fernen Stimme, englische Ausgabe
    In Search of a Distant Voice
    Strangers
    All of Us Strangers. Movie Tie-In
    • Now a Major Motion Picture starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell. A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before... Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he's drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building. One night, when Harada returns to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up, he meets a man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they died many years earlier. Deeply felt, searching, and profound, All of Us Strangers is a beautiful meditation on loss and the connection between familial love and romantic love.

      All of Us Strangers. Movie Tie-In
    • Strangers

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.6(435)Add rating

      SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING PAUL MESCAL, CLAIRE FOY, ANDREW SCOTT AND JAMIE BELL Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father.

      Strangers
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      A woman is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his life. Kasama is an immigration officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event that happened eight years previously, when he lived in the USA.

      In Search of a Distant Voice