Aki Shimazaki
Zakuro
Fiction French-Language
Aki Shimazaki, Montreal, Zakuro.
(Leméac Éditeur / Actes Sud; distributed by Socadis) (ISBN 978-2-7609-2828-2)
In this gripping and beautifully spare novel, Aki Shimazaki opens a window onto a painful episode of history. The economical, polished writing advances relentlessly toward a conclusion, from which, almost magically, pure emotion springs forth – and the reader is made the richer by the experience.
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