The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

“Delicate and powerful… a haunting, sensitive meditation on memory as well as a wonderful introduction to a master sorely underappreciated in the West. . . timeless, elegiac, and masterful” – Shelf AwarenessThe story of a love affair and its tragic consequences, told through the letters of three women ? a contemporary translation of a Modern classic”A Japanese master. . . Inoue’s humane and searching world view is there to be explored” – The Spectator Love, death, truth and loneliness are all intertwined in this masterpiece from one of Japan’s greatest writers. A tragedy in three letters: the masterpiece of one of Japan’s greatest writersA lover, her daughter and the abandoned wife: three letters by three women tell the story of a love affair’s tragic consequences.First Shoko, who finds out about the infidelity through reading her mother’s diary; then Midori, the wife who has always known but never told; and finally