Summer at Mount Asama
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Summer at Mount Asama
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Narrated by:
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Kevin Shen
About this listen
The Japanese novel comes of age in this gripping story of love, art and life as a group of architects competes to design the new National Library of Modern Literature in Tokyo.
In 1980s Japan, newly-graduated Tōru Sakanishi joins a small, prestigious architecture firm founded by a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. As the sweltering summer months approach, the team migrates from the bustling centre of Tokyo to the beautiful rural surroundings of Mount Asama, where several love stories are woven together and Sakanishi encounters four remarkable women who change the course of his life.
From honouring ancestors to illustrating the complexities of the living, Summer at Mount Asama is a prize-winning novel beautifully translated by National Book Award winner Margaret Mitsutani, offering a moving and elegant portrait of the clash of modernity and tradition.
©2012 First published in Japanese as 火山のふもとで (Kazan no fumoto de) in by Shinchosha Publishing Co. Ltd. English translation copyright Margaret Mitsutani 2025. This English edition is published by arrangement with the author in care of the Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc. Tokyo (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing