Find Purity: Japanese Short Stories Penned By Vincent Thibault Available As Publication

book of short stories may be small in size but it is big in stature, Each story is thoughtfully and carefully written, with great attention to detail, It is the type of book that can be re read and enjoyed again and again as I think there is enough depth to give us different viewpoints with each reading.
I was fortunate enough to receive this book as a Goodreads Giveaway but that has no bearing on my review, Alternate cover edition for sitelink

PURITY Japanese short stories Translated from French by Lisa HannafordWong Originally published under the title "La Pureté" by éditions du Septentrion/Hamac in Quebec City, Canada.
"In all of his sixtysix years, Ajimasensei had never experienced such weather in Kyushu, Residents of the Kagoshima prefecture had been caught unaware, much like a tea master who, when startled, drops his favourite cup, Just as classes were letting out, a menacing wind had begun to gust, tearing open the dark skies and pelting the school childrens faces with rain as they fled home.
Some had taken shelter at the homes of friends, many others, among strangers, "

An old gentleman finds love in a shop window, A sharks tooth rekindles a childhood memory, A man is driven to the point of obsession by a mysterious black seed, . . The ten stories inside PURITY spring from a poetry of the everyday, of strangeness, transparency

and sudden epiphanies, From the unsaid there comes a strength, a serene confidence, Vincent Thibault, a talented and prolific writer from Quebec, Canada, follows his own unique path, With this translation by Lisa HannafordWong, English readers can now enjoy his short stories, Purity is certain to delight readers of Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, Homme didées, voyageur émerveillé, et défenseur de ce quil conviendrait dappeler loptimisme éclairé, Vincent Thibault est un écrivain québécois, auteur dune quinzaine de livres.
Romans daventures, nouvelles envoûtantes, récits de voyage, essais sur la philosophie bouddhiste, propos sur la littérature, scénarios de films Son œuvre prend des formes dune diversité étonnante, mais sarticule autour de thèmes clés : lintégrité et la bienveillance dans un monde en constant changement, la quête de sagesse malgré le bruit ambiant, le courage face à lincertitude, et la réconciliation entre tradition et modernité.
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