(Image Credit: npr.org) Twenty-five-year-old Takako’s world caves in around her, when over dinner on an otherwise uneventful evening, her boyfriend, Hideaki, casually announces that he would be leaving her for a newfound love interest. This apathetic proclamation leaves Takako in a catatonic state. Forsaking, first her job and then her appetite, she falls into a … Continue reading Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
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the empusium – olga tokarczuk
In 1913, a young, but pale and unhealthy Mieczyslaw Wojnicz arrives at a health resort in the quaint and brooding Silesian Mountain village of Görbersdorf (currently known as Sokołowsko in Poland). Suffering from tuberculosis, Wojnicz hopes to be treated and cured in a massive sanatorium abutting the Guesthouse for Gentlemen, where the young lad checks … Continue reading the empusium – olga tokarczuk