{"product_id":"9781805334910","title":"The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12 haunting, uniquely crafted short stories about loss and memory from a revered Japanese-Argentine author, available in English for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Her stories are a transformative experience... Kamiya makes simple what for others is impossible to express.”\u003c\/em\u003e - Clarín\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 12 stories of exquisite compression and perfectly-formed images, Japanese-Argentine writer Alejandra Kamiya conjures absences, shadows, and all that must remain unsaid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of quietly shattering epiphanies from a unique voice in international fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevered 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kamiya, Alejandra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":67775347523636,"sku":"9781805334910","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/0320\/4404\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c657f402-e559-497b-8623-1fbf6da09bfa.jpg?v=1792548359","url":"https:\/\/wanderingalbatrossbooks.com\/products\/9781805334910","provider":"Wandering Albatross Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}