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THINGS REMEMBERED AND THINGS FORGOTTEN - KYOKO ...

'If we want to understand what has been lost to time  there is no way other than through the
exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So
wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story  Things Remembered and
Things Forgotten   a piece that illuminates  as if by throwing a switch  the layers of wartime
devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture.   The ten
acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In
beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose  Nakajima portrays men and women beset by
cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and
occupation  by fading traditions  by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers  by the
spirits of their recent past.

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