Book review: Mai Ishizawa’s The Place Of Shells is a profound debut about grief and loss

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By Mai Ishizawa, translated by Polly BartonFiction/Sceptre/Paperback/160 pages/$32.93

Worlds collide in Mai Ishizawa’s powerful yet heartbreaking debut, The Place Of Shells, which immediately catapulted her into the literary stratosphere as she scooped up both the Gunzo New Writers’ Prize and the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.

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