by Yuko Taniguchi · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788499088143
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«Un océano en el armario» is the contemporary novel by Yuko Taniguchi, published by Debolsillo in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Helen, a nine-year-old girl in post-Vietnam War California, watches her veteran father grow distant and her mother, adopted in Japan, sink into depression. She writes to her great-uncle Hideo and crosses the ocean; there she discovers the family silk business in Hiroshima and the fate of her grandmother Ume, war wounds still open.
Translated by Ana Mata Buil, it was originally published as The Ocean in the Closet in 2007. It won the American Book Award in 2008 and belongs to the Best Seller collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking stories about family, historical memory and reconciliation, with a Japanese backdrop.
