Evening Clouds

The most celebrated work by one of Japan's master literary stylists, Evening Clouds is a book filled with delicate images of ordinary life, richly and precisely observed. A family moves into a new home on a windswept hilltop in western Tokyo. Around them are forests and farms. But the developers are coming, and the children are growing up. There are meals, quandaries, conversations...Life appears comfortable and serene, yet Shōno's portrayal has a strange and evocative undercurrent, as the most minute details slowly resonate out through a universe that is changing and unforgiving. Evening Clouds combines the crafted naturalism of haiku with the Ozu-like clarity of film to produce a story that is wistful and real. Read Shōno slowly, a luxuriate in his vision.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 06/01/2000
ISBN: 9781880656488
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.51w x 0.63d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/15/2000 pg. 88
Booklist 05/15/2000 pg. 1731
Atlantic Monthly 07/01/2000 pg. 98