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 Strangers - Taichi Yamada
 Strangers - Taichi Yamada ... graceful, downbeat ending has passed.Newest Review: ... finding your dead parents alive and well living in modern times different to the past but haven’t aged since their death. The ... more ... fact that Harada can’t believe they are his parents because even he is older than they are. I did find it very emotional, upsetting at times with loss, but the final scenes are very revealing.
I wouldn’t say the book was so much of a page turner as usually I’d expect a phrase or a word at the end of a chapter as a cliff hanger which would want me to read on but really there wasn’t many in the chapters. The few that do occur seem so over dramatic it sounds like Harada’s life is (or has) ended e.g. ‘Later that same e...more |
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Strangers - Taichi Yamada: Estranged or just strange? (1074 words)
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Hideo Harada is a failed father and divorced. Left with very little, he retreats to his office and apartment to work on TV script writing. Only one woman lives in the same building and she tries to become friends but Harada is too busy and upset at his ex-wife. Living in a very busy area of Tokyo his depression becomes too much and he longs for a change so on his birthday he visits his birth town, Asakusa, and is stunned to see a man who strikingly resembles his long dead father. At the age of 48 he knows this could not be his father who died when he was 12 but before long he is reintroduced to his long dead parents. Are they real or is it just a hallucination brought on ... Read the complete review
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