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Mélodie : a memoir of love and longing / Akira Mizubayashi ; translated by Stephanie Anderson.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2016.Description: x, 213 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780522869880 :
- 843.92 23
- PQ2673
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 843.92 MIZ | Available | 064685 |
Total reserves: 0
Originally published in French.
Melodie is the heartfelt memoir of a Japanese man's life with his golden retriever - or rather of his golden retriever's life with him. Fidelity, patience, attachment, love and family ties are illuminated through the demands and joys of living with a large dog in a small apartment in Tokyo. Akira Mizubayashi's attachment to Melodie profoundly transforms how he lives his life and makes him reimagine the nature of relationships between humans and animals. In his homage to Melodie, Mizubayashi offers a moving account of faithful love and compromise.
Text in English.
