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The Summer House

By Masashi Matsuie

The Summer House Contemporary literature

The Summer House

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"This prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of modern Japan through a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo. Tåoru Sakanishi is a recent university graduate who joins the prestigious Murai Office, a small architecture firm founded by Shunsuke Murai, former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. A sensitive and observant narrator, Sakanishi is captivated by the artistic quality and careful consideration the Murai Office shows to each of its designs. As the sweltering summer months approach, the Murai Office migrates from Tokyo to Kita-Asama, a mountain village and artists' colony whose heyday has passed. There, this small team of architects, including two women who Sakanishi is clumsily attracted to, set out to design the National Library of Modern Literature, competing against a rival firm that snaps up one government project after the next. Beautifully translated by National Book Award-winner Margaret Mitsutani, The Summer House is a character-driven story with prose that highlights the natural beauty of Japan, the ingenuity of architecture, and the clashing of modernity and tradition"--
Product details
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2025-06-10
Publication Date:
2025-06-17
Publisher:
Other Press (NY)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1635425174
ISBN13:
9781635425178
Weight:
426 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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