A Quiet Place
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife - who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings - ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood?
Dark & BroodingMysteriousQuietly DevastatingThought-ProvokingThe silence of domestic secretsThe fragility of ordinary livesThe weight of unspoken truthsThe illusion of marital intimacy
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