- Blizzards, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, Japan, fiction
At the turn of the century, a blizzard maroons guests in a mountain inn in Japan. They are an odd lot and include a theater troupe. There is robbery, murder and love. The protagonist is the innkeeper's apprentice. A first novel.
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Classical in form, grave, intimate and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lewis Libby
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Griffin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312284534
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“On the edge of a ridge removed from the sea lay a small wooden inn half-buried in snow.”
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