false 4717491 2 In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut <b>One for Sorrow </b>explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. <b><br><br></b>On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man&#8217;s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives&#8212;and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong.<br><br>From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection&#8212;uncovering the love we share without knowing. <br><br>Exquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak&#8217;s artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find&#8212;or lose&#8212;themselves in an often incomprehensible world. 4781906 book 25 11 2008 The Love We Share Without Knowing total:81|5:32|4:32|3:14|2:3|1:0| 81 336 176 12 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 19:35:14 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:35:19 -0700 2009
And his second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing , is a book I recommend to Everyone (including my parental units.)

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