ARGONAUT BOOKS

Taro is divorced, unhappy in his job, and living in a half-empty building that is about to be torn down. One summer morning, he sees a fellow resident climbing over the wall to the next-door house. She says she is called Nishi, and invites herself inside. It emerges that Nishi's fascination with this pale blue house began in her student days twenty years before, and came from a book of photos called 'Spring Garden' from decades earlier. Reviews "Like a good meditation: quiet, surprising and deeply satisfying." -New York Times Book Review "Atmospheric, meditative story of mem...Read More