{"id":263950,"date":"2026-07-15T01:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/in-search-of-a-distant-voice-taichi-yamada\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:46:24","slug":"in-search-of-a-distant-voice-taichi-yamada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/in-search-of-a-distant-voice-taichi-yamada\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of A Distant Voice – Taichi Yamada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018What the hell is up with this guy?\u2019 Yoshie glared down at Tsuneo from where she stood. \u2018I mean, what the hell! This whole thing is a fiasco! What\u2019s happening here! Isn\u2019t the match- maker going to take responsibility for this?\u2019 \u2018How can you say such a stupid thing?\u2019 shouted her mother. \u201cWho\u2019s being stupid?<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s being stupid!\u2019 Yoshie cried at the top of her lungs. Then, running over to the alcove, she started grabbing the gifts and throwing them around the room. \u2018This is all crap! It\u2019s crap!\u2019 \u201cYoshie!\u201d \u201cYoshie darling!\u2019 Tsuneo knelt there trembling amidst all the shouting, trying to control his sobs. Damn her. Damn that woman with the voice. Director-General Sait6\u2019s driving was smooth and even, with- out a wasted movement.<\/p>\n

It struck Tsuneo that he himself would never have been able to remain so composed after all that had happened. On the other hand, Mr Sait\u00e9 hadn\u2019t said a single word for the first twenty minutes after they left Yoshie\u2019s house. Just now they were merging onto the Shuto Expressway from the Yoga entrance. Mr Sait\u00e9 had said he\u2019d drive him to his dorm, in Edogawa ward. Tsuneo had declined the offer, only to be told, in a tone that sounded like a command, that it was no trouble, so get in.<\/p>\n

Mrs Saito had remained at Yoshie\u2019s house. If he\u2019d been the matchmaker, he doubted it would even have occurred to him to drive the future groom to his dorm, not after he had caused such a ruckus. He would have told him to find his own damn way home. Tsuneo hadn\u2019t asked Mr Sait6 to take on the role of matchmaker.<\/p>\n

It had been Mr Saitd\u2019s idea to go talk with Yoshie\u2019s parents, to tell them that there was a \u2018serious, likeable young man\u2019 in the office with \u2018a warm side\u2019 to him who might make a good match for Yoshie. Mrs Sait6 must be having a miserable time right now. When Mr Sait6 led Tsuneo out to the car, he had heard her mutter- ing to herself at her husband\u2019s back, repeating the same In Search of a Distant Voice phrases: \u2018I don\u2019t understand it at all, I really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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reader will follow him : step for step, page for page, on. nis : i 4 quest to redeem his es : soe ee au Yomiuri pias : ; S as etnade! s grasp “ef life s dred . me Sia m and he ee fe 5 a : and epee : a undercuts, moments of intense reflection provides his orig- ae ire foe ae, psychological | books with 7 bot a relevance,\u2019 0 es \u201cTrish Tinea Bers a ore nthe hough L; \u2014 Serva i IN SEARCH OF A DISTANT VOICE Taichi Yamada worked at the world-renowned Shochiku film studios until he set out on a highly successful career as a free- lance scriptwriter and novelist.<\/p>\n

Winner of the Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for the best human-interest novel in Japan, Strangers was published as his English-language debut in 2005. Praise for Strangers: \u2018A ghost story of the highest order\u2019 David Mitchell, Independent on Sunday \u2018Shocking precisely because it is such a profoundly moving exploration of loneliness . . . In the balance of realism and sur- realism lies the key to Yamada\u2019s achievement.\u2019 Eileen Battersby, Irish Times \u201cTaichi Yamada\u2019s Strangers cautions us to beware looking back. A tale of vampiric phantoms, it unfolds against a backdrop of busy Tokyo and begins when a divorced, down-on-his-luck TV writer indulges in a trip back to his old neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Observer \u2018The interplay of traditional ideas about spirits and cold modernity is what lies behind the power of this sharp, chilling contemporary ghost story. The Scotsman \u2018A memorably uncanny tapestry, and a powerful atmosphere, of heat and rain and sorrow … The powerful mood of Strangers lingers well after its graceful, downbeat ending has passed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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