Mina's Matchbox Malachi Edwin Vethamani (ed.) 'These scraps

'These scraps

Iconic in China

and carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle

Arthur Conan

Mina's Matchbox Malachi Edwin Vethamani (ed.) 'These scrapsFrom the award winning author of The Memory Police and The Housekeeper and the Professor, a hypnotic novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. In the spring of 1972, twelve year old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunts family. Tomokos aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working class