Strangers
By: Taichi Yamada ; translated by Wayne P. Lammers.
Contributors: Lammers, Wayne P., 1951-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Vertical
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Middle-aged men -- Fiction; Apparitions -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When jaded 48-year-old scriptwriter Harada visits Tokyo's old entertainment district where he grew up, he encounters a likeable working man who is the spitting image of his dead father. Lonely, nostalgic, and willing to believe the unbelievable, Harada follows the mysterious man, embarking on a bittersweet journey into the womb of a city whose living inhabitants have perhaps changed too rapidly and lost their souls." "While the visits to his parents seem invigorating to Harada, his beautiful and strangely vulnerable neighbor Kei insists that he stop seeing them for his own good. A battle for the soul - Harada's, a tired city's - ensues in this thinking man's ghost story."--Jacket.