The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto (.ePUB)
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The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto & Cathy Hirano (translator)
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Overview: The summer before they must take the school entrance exams that will determine the course of their lives, Kiyama and his friends Kawabe and Yamashita are overwhelmed with curiosity about death when Yamashita’s grandmother dies. What is it that distinguishes the moment before death from the moment after? What does a dead body look like? Does the dead person become a ghost?
“My uncle told me a long, long time ago when I was little that dying means to stop breathing. And for a long time I believed it. But now I know that that’s not true. Living is more than just breathing. So dying must be more, too.”
Determined to see death firsthand, the boys make a decrepit old man in their neighborhood (who they think will probably die soon) the subject of their constant surveillance. But as they watch the old man, he watches them, until the focus of their attention begins to shift, and satisfaction of their initial curiosity is the last thing they desire.
In this novel about passing from one stage of life into another, Kiyama and his friends learn—and teach—some valuable lessons about living.
Genre: Fiction > Children/Young Adult
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