num_pages: 208
description: Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likeable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. And so begins Harada's ordeal, as he's thrust into a reality where his parents appear to be alive at the exact age they had been when they had died so many years before.
language: English
title: Strangers
titlecomplete: Strangers
genres: Asian Literature, Japan, Ghosts, Asia, Supernatural, Japanese Literature, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
ratings_count: 2964
places: Tokyo
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: 山本周五郎賞 Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize
publisher: Faber and Faber