The North Light
ByPublisher Description
A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the Year
Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence built in the shadow of Mount Asama. Aose has never been able to replicate this triumph and his career seems to have hit a barrier, while his marriage has failed. He is shocked to learn that the Yoshino House is empty apart from a single chair, stood facing the north light of nearby Mount Asama.
How can he live with the rejection of the work he had put his heart and soul into, the dream house he would have loved to own himself? Aose determines that he must discover the truth behind this cruel and inexplicable dismissal of the Yoshino house and in doing so will find out a truth that goes back to the core of who he is.
Plotted with the subtlety of his bestselling masterpiece Six Four, The North Light is Yokoyama at his elusive, tantalising and surprising best.
Download the free Fable app
Stay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.
Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building tool
Rate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tags
Curate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communitiesStay organized
Keep track of what you’re reading, what you’ve finished, and what’s next.Build a better TBR
Swipe, skip, and save with our smart list-building toolRate and review
Share your take with other readers with half stars, emojis, and tagsCurate your feed
Meet readers like you in the Fable For You feed, designed to build bookish communities11 Reviews
miatamzinreads
Created about 1 month agoisraelreads
Created about 1 month ago
“The premise of this book looked really interesting on paper, but unfortunately that was as good as it gets.
It actually starts off relatively fast paced, setting up the seeds for the investigation into the Yoshino’s within the first few chapters. However, the first 200 pages felt like reading different variations of the exact same chapter. A vague clue about the family’s whereabouts that ends up being extremely interesting, boring descriptions of architecture and Japanese street signs and names that add nothing to the plot, and the introduction of boring side characters who are only slightly more forgettable than the main character who doesn’t really have a single interesting trait going for.
I liked the idea of exploring Aose’s reasons for becoming an architect and what the Y house really meant to him, but the book fails to offer any consistent exploration of this, and after reading the first 200 pages, I couldn’t find any other reason to keep forcing myself to read this.”
Alan McIver
Created about 2 months agoHana
Created about 2 months agoAbout Hideo Yokoyama
Hideo Yokoyama (Author)
Born in 1957, Hideo Yokoyama worked for twelve years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo, before becoming one of Japan's most acclaimed fiction writers. His exhaustive and relentless work ethic is known to mirror the intense and obsessive behaviour of his characters; and in January 2003 he was hospitalized following a heart attack brought about by working constantly for seventy-two hours. Six Four is his sixth novel, and his first to be published in the English language.
Other books by Hideo Yokoyama
Start a Book Club
Start a public or private book club with this book on the Fable app today!FAQ
Do I have to buy the ebook to participate in a book club?
Why can’t I buy the ebook on the app?
How is Fable’s reader different from Kindle?
Do you sell physical books too?
Are book clubs free to join on Fable?
How do I start a book club with this book on Fable?
Similar Books
