A Shinto priest dies and his successful architect son has to come home from years living in the US to take care of things. He walks straight into a hotbed of intrigue where spies masquerade as priests, friends are not what they seem and many lust after the prime real estate the shrine occupies.
He discovers aspects of his father he never knew and learns more about himself than he ever expected.
This is a novel about identity and what it means to belong. About what it means to go home as an adult, after having gone away and made a life elsewhere.
‘Radhika Jha manages in THE HIDDEN FOREST to skilfully describe the contrasts that make Japan always poised between modernity and tradition, intertwining them with the internal ones of a man who finds the courage to change his destiny. A novel full of twists and turns, profound, in contrast with recent productions and fashions set in the Land of the Rising Sun’ Il Venerdì di Repubblica
‘Perhaps no Indian since Ruskin Bond has used the English language so beautifully.’ The Statesman
‘Her writing is generous, unbridled, sensual.’ Le Figaro
Sales
- Context/Westland India (English original, Indian subcontinent only)
- Sellerio Italy
Material: edited manuscript, PDF of Italian edition (250pp)