Summer at Mount Asama by Masashi Matsuie (The Indigo Press, 2025)
Fiction
Summer at Mount Asama by Masashi Matsuie (ISBN: 9781917378000). It’s 1980s Japan and a group of architects are competing to design the new National Library of Modern Literature in Tokyo. Architecture graduate Toru Sakanishi has escaped the heat of Tokyo and migrated for the summer to the rural surroundings of Mount Asama, where he encounters four remarkable women who will change his life. Exploring tensions between modernity and tradition, the book is described as a ‘gripping story of love, art and life’.