(tent) The Sound of Water

“Mama, why did you live with Papa?” The question lingers in the air after Miyako begins living with Ryō. It’s then that her late mother begins to appear in her dreams. What form does love take, when shaped by siblings bound by silence, memory, and loss? A quietly haunting and emotionally resonant novel, The Sound of Water traces the delicate flow of relationships, grief, and connection. Winner of the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, this work reveals a deeply intimate portrait of what it means to love and to remember.