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Watersong
- Author
- Clarissa Goenawan
- Narrator
- David Shih
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 23 May 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 2 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found.
Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away from three women with water in their names, he travels to Tokyo, where he tries in vain to track Youko down. But Shouji soon realizes that not everything Youko told him about herself was true. Who is the real woman he once lived with and loved, and where could she be hiding?
Watersong is a spellbinding novel of loves lost and recovered, of secrets never spoken, and of how our pasts shape our futures.
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Details
- Author
- Clarissa Goenawan
- Narrator
- David Shih
- Duration
- 9 hours 2 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 May 2023
- ISBN
- 9781696610353
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Magical realism
Synopsis
A mesmerizing novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan.When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found.Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away from three women with water in their names, he travels to Tokyo, where he tries in vain to track Youko down. But Shouji soon realizes that not everything Youko told him about herself was true. Who is the real woman he once lived with and loved, and where could she be hiding?Watersong is a spellbinding novel of loves lost and recovered, of secrets never spoken, and of how our pasts shape our futures.
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