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Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure and dies in the process, two notebooks turn up in his bedsheets. Flowers of Grass unfolds as the narrator reads them, asking himself if Shiomi's death was a sort of suicide, and learning the details of his late friend's two great loves: for a brother and sister, both of whom reject him. Fukunaga himself spent seven years recuperating from tuberculosis following World War II, and drew on his own experiences to create a fully realized portrait of a young man of fastidious intelligence and great sorrow, and how it is possible, seeing reality from the side of death and despair, to still choose life.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Flowers of Grass
• Author: Takehiko Fukunaga, Royall Tyler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225
• EAN: 9781564787149
• ISBN: 1564787141
• ID: 04813889
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 139 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. April 2012

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