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I HAVEN'T DREAMED OF FLYING FOR A WHILE
Following his acclaimed novels Strangers and In Search of a Distant Voice, I Haven´t Dreamed of Flying for a While is another haunting, urban ghost story from Taichi Yamada.
After accident, illness, and the loss of his job and marriage, forty-eight-year-old Taura meets Mutsuko, setting his already derailed life even further off course. Their first encouter is, unseen, in an overcrowded hospital. It later transpires that the mysterious Mutsuko is in her late sixties, but when they next meet she is younger, in her forties, and the two fall seemingly and hopelessly in love.
With Mutsuko´s age decreasing each time they meet, however, time rapidly starts to run out for these two damaged souls. Short and enigmatic, Yamada´s novel is a bold and disturbing exploration of love and loss.
After accident, illness, and the loss of his job and marriage, forty-eight-year-old Taura meets Mutsuko, setting his already derailed life even further off course. Their first encouter is, unseen, in an overcrowded hospital. It later transpires that the mysterious Mutsuko is in her late sixties, but when they next meet she is younger, in her forties, and the two fall seemingly and hopelessly in love.
With Mutsuko´s age decreasing each time they meet, however, time rapidly starts to run out for these two damaged souls. Short and enigmatic, Yamada´s novel is a bold and disturbing exploration of love and loss.
