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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten

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This is a delightful book of short stories from the author of The Little House, and winner of the Naoki Prize.

Kyoko Nakajima tackles the past and present, the mundane and the ethereal in her delightful collection of short stories Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. The glue that holds these stories together is memory: how the characters remember, wish to remember, or even remember events they never experienced. (Read the full review)