![]() He is also keen to uncover the circumstances of the Katous’ daughter’s death, and, of course, to discover who killed his sister, and why. ![]() While living in some ways as Keiko lived, Ren tries to make sense of aspects of his sister’s life that were previously hidden from him, and thereby, too, aspects of his own life currently mysterious to him. ![]() Now, in some ways, Ren seems to slip into her life: he takes over both her job teaching English in a cram school, and her lodgings in the distinctly creepy Katou household: Mrs Katou is mentally ill and kept out of sight Mr and Mrs Katou had a young daughter who died in mysterious circumstances. Keiko was older than Ren by 9 years when he was a child, she was more a mother than a sister. In Tokyo, her brother Ren, the narrator, drops everything, including, temporarily, his girlfriend, to rush to the scene. In the small, fictional town of Akakawa, Keiko Ishida has just been murdered. ![]() In 2015, Indonesian-born Singaporean author Clarissa Goenawan won the prestigious Bath Novel Award for unpublished and self-published novelists for her novel Rainbirds, which-some two years later-is now seeing the light of day. ![]()
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