Beautiful Distance

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The unspoken emotions that exist between people — not the dramatic confessions or the explosive arguments, but the small, accumulating feelings that never find words. Yamazaki traces the delicate connections between her characters with the precision of someone who understands that the most important things in a relationship are usually the ones neither person says out loud. From one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers, this is a novel about the beautiful distance between people — the space that is simultaneously what separates them and what holds them together. The prose is quiet, precise, and emotionally devastating in its restraint. A novel about everything that happens in the space between two people — the distance that is too far to cross and too close to bear.