![]() It emerges that Nishi's fascination with this pale blue house began in her student days twenty years before, and came from a book of photos called 'Spring Garden' from decades earlier.As the summer draws to a close, Nishi, Taro and the new family that has moved into the old house come together and drift apart, leaving the reader with a sense of their whole life in just a few vivid snapshots. She says she is called Nishi, and invites herself inside. ![]() One summer morning, he sees a fellow resident climbing over the wall to the next-door house. Asako I & II, a film based on her novel Nete mo samete mo. It emerges that Nishi's fascination with this pale blue house began in her student days twenty years before, and came f Taro is divorced, unhappy in his job, and living in a half-empty building that is about to be torn down. Its English translation, Spring Garden, is now available in the UK and US through Pushkin Press. ![]() After graduating from university, she took an office job but continued writing, and was shortlisted for the Bungei Prize in 1998. ![]() ![]() Taro is divorced, unhappy in his job, and living in a half-empty building that is about to be torn down. Tomoka Shibasaki was born in 1973 in Osaka and began writing fiction while still in high school. ![]()
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