Author: Obata, Fumio, artist.
Publication year: 2014
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780224096638 (hbk.) :
Notes: Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident. Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death - and confronting a decision she hadn't expected to have to make.