Il Pianto Dei Ciliegi Un Amore a Tokyo

English description: "I am obsessed by the outlines of faces, the cuts of the eyes, the soft shapes of shadows amid the pines. Trees like samurais, facing the sea, fearless and strong. I let the splendor seep into me, drop by drop. More often, my throat tightens. Strange echoes, strange beaches, a shears cuts stripes in them half-way. A music sounds, a distant, elusive lament. And I feel lonely." Rina and Akito are young and naive. She is a language teacher who has moved to Japan; he is the heir to a rigid, traditional family. They meet and fall in love in modern, luminous Tokyo. But the tragic tsunami of March 2011 bears down on their lives A novel in a suggestive setting, rich with references to Japanese culture. A story about losing and finding each other again. An inner landscape, dense with pain but brimming with light