num_pages: 366
description: After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied at times by her dead sister's lover, at others by her clairvoyant kid brother. This is the story of Sakumi's remarkable expedition through grief, dreams, and shadows to a place of transformation and the discovery of a soul.
language: English
title: Amrita
titlecomplete: Amrita
genres: 20th Century, Asian Literature, Literature, Japan, Novels, Asia, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 6634
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Washington Square Press