{"product_id":"9781399750424","title":"The Place of Shells : 'An extraordinary, beautiful novel' Sarah Bernstein, Booker-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience - Mai Ishizawa","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed'Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police'Here we find a form of language that attempts to venture, dancing, into a past enveloped in silence'Yoko Tawada, author of The Last Children of Tokyo'An eerie, shimmering fever dream . . . strange and beautiful'Jenny Mustard, author of Okay DaysAt a train station in Germany, a Japanese student meets an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tohoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned. The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquility of G�ttingen. Yet Nomiya's arrival destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie discoveries are made in the forest and, as the past becomes increasingly vivid, the threads of time threaten to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mai Ishizawa","offers":[{"title":"160 pages, N\/A \/ 16\/07\/2026 \/ Horror \u0026 ghost stories","offer_id":57208683823479,"sku":"9781399750424","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781399750424.jpg?v=1782126921","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781399750424","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}