The letters
By: Kazumi Yumoto ; translated by Cathy Hirano
Contributors: Hirano, Cathy
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780374343835
Subjects: Grief; Death; Letters; Old age; Landlord and tenant; Fiction
Work titles: Popura no aki
Description: In Japan, the death of her former landlady triggers a young woman's memories about her father's death when she was six years old, and the special way the old lady helped her to cope with the loss.