Little House (Record no. 49686)
[ view plain ]
| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 01485 a2200169 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250310151748.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781850773160 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823 NAK |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nakajima, Kyoko |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Little House |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Darf Publishers |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 268 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Little House is set in the early years of the Showa era (1926-89), when Japan's situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing. On the outskirts of Tokyo, near a station on a private train line, stands a modest European style house with a red, triangular shaped roof. There a woman named Taki has worked as a maidservant in the house and lived with its owners, the Hirai family. Now, near the end of her life, Taki is writing down in a notebook her nostalgic memories of the time spent living in the house. Her journal captures the refined middle-class life of the time from her gentle perspective. At the end of the novel, however, a startling final chapter is added. The chapter brings to light, after Taki's death, a fact not described in her notebook. This suddenly transforms the world that had been viewed through the lens of a nostalgic memoir, so that a dramatic, flesh-and-blood story takes shape. Nakajima manages to combine skilful dialogue with a dazzling ending. The result is a polished, masterful work fully deserving of the Naoki Prize. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Takemori, Ginny Tapley (translator) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
No items available.
