{pdf download} The Summer House: A Novel by Masashi Matsuie, Margaret Mitsutani

The Summer House: A Novel by Masashi Matsuie, Margaret Mitsutani

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• The Summer House: A Novel

• Masashi Matsuie, Margaret Mitsutani

• Page: 400

• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2

• ISBN: 9781635425185

• Publisher: Other Press, LLC

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Notes From Your Bookseller Rich in setting and detail, this soft-spoken, art-driven novel steeped in architectural fascinations is an absolute charmer. This prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of modern Japan through a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo. Tōru Sakanishi is a recent university graduate who joins the prestigious Murai Office, a small architecture firm founded by Shunsuke Murai, former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. A sensitive and observant narrator, Sakanishi is captivated by the artistic quality and careful consideration the Murai Office shows to each of its designs. As the sweltering summer months approach, the Murai Office migrates from Tokyo to Kita-Asama, a mountain village and artists’ colony whose heyday has passed. There, this small team of architects, including two women who Sakanishi is clumsily attracted to, set out to design the National Library of Modern Literature, competing against a rival firm that snaps up one government project after the next. Beautifully translated by National Book Award–winner Margaret Mitsutani, The Summer House is a character-driven story with prose that highlights the natural beauty of Japan, the ingenuity of architecture, and the clashing of modernity and tradition.