The Arrow Garden
The Arrow Garden by Andrew J. King, published by Aderyn Press on January 19, 2023, is a historical fiction novel that explores the intersection of lives across different cultures and times. The story follows a lonely technical translator in 1990s Bristol who takes up traditional Japanese archery, known as Kyudo. Through this practice, he reaches out to another culture, leading to an unexpected connection with Tanaka Mie, a woman navigating the ruins of wartime Tokyo and her own fragmented memories.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into themes of isolation, cultural exchange, and the impact of the past on the present. As Tanaka embarks on a journey to a mountain village shrine, she grapples with her identity and the remnants of her history. The Arrow Garden presents a poignant exploration of how lives can become intertwined in unforeseen ways, inviting reflection on the nature of existence and the connections that shape us. This edition spans 330 pages and is written in English.
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A lonely and socially isolated technical translator in 1990s Bristol takes up traditional Japanese archery. To study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people, but when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie, finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents fire-bombed home, with only hazy recollections of how she survived. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. But it is also to be changed.
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