Summer at Mount Asama by Masashi Matsuie #literature her family and friends know

her family and friends know she is

written by a novelist of vast talent’ – Richard Ford

brought to life in artist Jessica Roux’s detailed

compassionate and clear-eyed as Caldwell to track the hidden forces that work upon us

Summer at Mount Asama by Masashi Matsuie #literature her family and friends knowThe 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 Toru 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