{"product_id":"mina-s-matchbox-a-novel","title":"Mina's Matchbox A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisponibilità soggetta a conferma. Tempi di evasione dell'ordine comunicati al momento dell'acquisto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion-Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end.? Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand-her uncle's mysterious absences, her German grandmother's experience of WWII, and her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time-and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse\"--","brand":"Libreria Fiore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54036003946842,"sku":null,"price":17.58,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7382\/1274\/files\/10009143482399.jpg?v=1779188158","url":"https:\/\/libreriafiore.it\/products\/mina-s-matchbox-a-novel","provider":"Libreria Fiore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}