{"product_id":"the-love-we-share-without-knowing-9780553385649","title":"The Love We Share Without Knowing","description":"In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut \u003cb\u003eOne for Sorrow \u003c\/b\u003eexplores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man's life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives--and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection--uncovering the love we share without knowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak's artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find--or lose--themselves in an often incomprehensible world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bantam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780553385649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.23w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Nebula Awards - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/22\/2008 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2009 pg. 54 - Excellent\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Annex\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2008\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Christopher Barzak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204942987445,"sku":"9780553385649","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4c36f72e-3431-4245-877f-e3d3a7159bba.jpg?v=1698126898","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-love-we-share-without-knowing-9780553385649","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}