The friends
By: Kazumi Yumoto ; translated by Cathy Hirano.
Contributors: Hirano, Cathy.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Friendship -- Fiction; Old age -- Fiction; Death -- Fiction; Japan -- Fiction
Description: Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man waiting for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends.
Notes: "Originally published in Japan under the title: Natsu no niwa by Fukutake Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992"--T.p. verso.