Falling dusk

Author: (Japan) Kaori Jo
Translator: Li Wei
Japan/Japan
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: It has the feel of Anni Baby—light, tranquil, and despair, with pervasive loneliness. Being with you, even in sad moments, is like sparkling stars. This book includes three of Kaori Jo’s most important works: The Twilight of the Evening, Twinkling Twinkle Little Star, and I Really Want to Cry. The Twilight of the Evening is Kaori Jo’s most popular novel. It’s a story about souls passing each other, calm, light, tranquil, bright, but full of despair! Twinkling Twinkle Little Star won the Murasaki Shikibu Literature Award in 1991. The novel has remained popular for over a decade since its publication. It was once listed alongside Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood as one of Japan’s most popular love novels and was named in 2005 as one of Japan’s “Books You’d Want to Share with Your Loved One!” I Really Want to Cry won the Naoki Prize in 2004. It consists of 12 delicate and transparent short stories, each a love storm cut from daily life, simple yet beautiful!