The Snow Kimono

On the same day that retired police inspector Auguste Jovert receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his daughter, he returns to his Paris apartment to find a stranger waiting for him.That stranger is a Japanese professor called Tadashi Omura What s brought him to Jovert s doorstep is not clear, but then he begins to tell his story a story of a fractured friendship, lost lovers, orphaned children, and a body left bleeding in the snow.As Jovert pieces together the puzzle of Omura s life, he can t help but draw parallels with his own for he too has lead a life that s been extraordinary and dangerous and based upon a lie. Best Download [ The Snow Kimono ] by [ Mark Henshaw ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I fell in love with this book on the first page and the first paragraph There are times in your life when something happens after which you re be never the same The writing is beautiful and so descriptive that it appealed to the poet in me For example on one page the writer describes the sky as churlish and then goes on to talk of, Banks of cloud the colour of egg white hung low and flat on the horizon With a description like that I could picture it exactly I liked the chairs bent li I fell in love with this book on the first page and the first paragraph There are times in your life when something happens after which you re be never the same The writing is beautiful and so descriptive that it appealed to the poet in me For example...To be honest, this is one of those books that I could simply list appropriate adjectives for This book is poignant, evocative, moving, heartfelt, shocking and, unerringly beautiful in equal measure Such is the complexity of the writing and plotting, that it almost defies its own inclusion into the crime genre, as its literary credentials are plain to see, and the pace and lyrical intensity of the slowly unfurling plot, take the reader on a wholly mesmeric journey With each strand of the narra To be honest, this is one of those books that I could simply list appropriate adjectives for This book is poignant, evocative, moving, heartfelt, shocking and, unerringly beautiful in equal measure Such is the complexity of the writing and plotting, that it almost defies its own inclusion into the crime genre, as its literary credentials are plain to see, and the pace and lyrical intensity of the slowly unfurling plot, take the reader on a wholly mesmeric journey With each strand of the narrative pivoting between separate characters telling their story, and the shifting location from France to Japan, and the unique characteristics of these two societies, rural and city, weaving in and out of the plot, the reader is constantly kept on the back foot, and deliciously toyed with as to how the plot will develop Henshaw cleverly harnesses the haunting simplicity of Japanese fiction, with all the style and impetus redolent of European crime fiction, in...Even at this early hour, traffic is jigsawed to a stop Battered trucks, hand carts, buses, clog the interstitial spaces Schools of ancient bicycles swim through the narrow fissures All around them, a swirling tide of men ebbs and flows, shouldering their wares, heads bent Near and far, horns bark, men shout High pitched whistles shred the air The bus floats on a shallow sea of dust and diesel fumes The...This is a novel that would be better the second time around it is a joy to read a rich narrative and engaging literary style However, amid all the words and stories told I was left confused and unable to gain any understanding to convey to others what it was about and why it moved me so much.The problem is in the retelling of stories from the lives of a Japanese professor and retired police inspector Jovert it it hard to piece together a plot or a direction of the book.Many of the tales relat This is a novel that would be better the second time around it is a joy to read a rich narrative and engaging literary style However, amid all the words and stories told I was left confused and unable to gain any understanding to convey to others what it was about and why it moved me so much.The problem is in the retelling of stories from the lives of a Japanese professor and retired police inspector Jovert it it hard to piece together a plot or a direction of the book.Many of the tales related are quite beautiful in imagery description and sense of place especially the development of the snow kimono story and the childhood joy of...In Japan we have a saying If you want to see your life, you have to see it through the eyes of another But what if what you see is not what you want to know This is a beautifully written, intricate puzzle of a book The clue, I think, is in the jigsaw puzzle Some pieces are small, others large, but all are calculated to deceive, to lead one astray, in order to make the puzzle as difficult, as challenging, as possible In our tradition, how a puzzle is made, and how it is solved, reveals so In Japan we have a saying If you want to see your life, you have to see it through the eyes of another But what if what you see is not what you want to know This is a beautifully written, intricate puzzle of a book The clue, I think, is in the jigsaw puzzle Some pieces are small, others large, but all are calculated to deceive, to lead one astray, in order to make the puzzle as difficult, as challenging, as possible In our tradition, how a puzzle is made, and how it is solved, reveals some greater truth about the world I m sure it all fits together beautifu...The Snow Kimono is a strangely wonderful and poetic read, honestly I found a lot of it a bit odd but beautiful and very compelling.It is quite difficult to say what it is about the narrative follows a tale being told, to a person who is not sure why he is hearing it It is a complex and elegantly woven story, a puzzle within a puzzle that ...Inspector Jovert, recently retired, receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his daughter This prompts him to reflect on his life, especially his work as an interrogator for the French forces in Algiers in the 1950s, and about what happened to his wife and son At the same time he finds waiting on his doorstep one night a Japanese professor Tadashi Omura who proceeds to relate his own life story It s never explained why Omura has sought him out, nor do the two stories intersect in any mea Inspector Jovert, recently retired, receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his daughter This prompts him to reflect on his life, especially his work as an interrogator for the French forces in Algiers in the 1950s, and about what happened to his wife and son At the same time he finds waiting on his doorstep one night a Japanese professor Tadashi Omura who proceeds to relate his own life story It s never explained why Omura has sought him out, nor do the two stories intersect in any meaningful way, and I found this ultimately unsatisfying The writing is both lyrical and often poetic, but the plots within plots, which never seem to resolve, made me soon impatient Too many twists and turns, too many sub plots, too many characters, too many symbols, all make for a crowded rather convoluted narrative which I felt was...Disappointing I am a reader so I m not fazed by complicated plots and or beautiful, carefully crafted prose I m pleased for the author that The Snow Kimono is so successful and so glowingly reviewed however I can understand why it was knocked back 39 or however many times before finally finding a publisher The prose is so self conscious, the story so long winded and ultimately tedious that I lost interest halfway through I persevered out of respect for the author but by the time I was n Disappointing I am a reader so I m not fazed by complicated plots and or beautiful, carefully crafted prose I m pleased for the author that The Snow Kimono is so successful and so glowingly reviewed however I can understand why it was knocked ba...The Snow Kimono, by Mark Henshaw, was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a thriller of the intellect That being the case I suspect that I am not intellectual enough to appreciate the nuances of plot and complexities of interwoven character development Put simply, I finished this book without understanding what the author was trying to say.There are two main threads to the tale First we have the Japanese story which revolves around Katsuo Ikeda, an apparently brilliant young author wh The Snow Kimono, by Mark Henshaw, was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a thriller of the intellect That being the case I suspect that I am not intellectual enough to appreciate the nuances of plot and complexities ...I was absolutely enthralled by some of the passages from the Japanese plotline The kite flying festival and Sachiko s experiences in particular I didn t love the choppy sentences as the focalisation shifted to Jovert, but was still gripped by the Algiers episode As the story moved back to Ikeda, Sachiko and Omura, Henshaw s prose was pared back, yet lyrical and I was transported to the places his narrators described, almost to the point of missing my stop on the bus home from work.Having sa I was absolutely enthralled by some of the passages from the Japanese plotline The kite flying festival and Sachiko s experiences in particular I didn t love the choppy sentences as the focalisation shifted to Jovert, but was still gripped by the Algiers episode As the story moved back to Ikeda, Sachiko and Omura, Henshaw s prose was pared back, yet lyrical ...

• English
• 18 February 2018
Mark Henshaw
• Hardcover
• 416 pages
• 1472225694
• Mark Henshaw
• The Snow Kimono