{"product_id":"9780553385649","title":"The Love We Share Without Knowing","description":"By: Christopher Barzak     \u003chr\u003eIn this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut \u003cb\u003eOne for Sorrow \u003c\/b\u003eexplores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eOn a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection—uncovering the love we share without knowing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak’s artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find—or lose—themselves in an often incomprehensible world.","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46397969236195,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780553385649","price":96.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780553385649.jpg?v=1748304582","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9780553385649","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}