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  • Location: Japan

Escape Routes

Escape Routes

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2000s: A set of speculative short stories

  • ISBN: B07R8VLVSQ
  • Genre: Short Stories

What you need to know before your trail

A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother’s airing cupboard. A musician finds her friendship with a flock of birds opens up unexpected possibilities. A rat catcher, summoned to a decaying royal palace, is plunged into a battle for the throne of a ruined kingdom. Two newlyweds find themselves inhibited by the arrival in their lives of an outsized and watchful stuffed bear.

Whether snared in traps artfully laid for them, or those of their own making, the characters in Naomi Ishiguro’s delightfully speculative debut collection yearn for freedom and flight, and find their worlds transformed beyond their wildest imaginings.

Travel Guide

Japan

Whimsical series of stories yet each one of them grounded in some sort of reality. They are set in vague places and vaguer locations yet the author is from a Japanese family and so this is the place on the map. Her father is winner of the Nobel Prize.

The ambiguity of the stories and whimsical nature of the stories creates an interesting atmosphere that makes you think about morals and life itself. There is also a mystical layer to them all and the essence of another culture, another way of life is carried through each and every one.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Escape Routes

Destination:  Japan   Author/guide:  Naomi Ishiguro  Departure Time: 2000s

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