The shut ins / Katherine Brabon.
Publication details: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.Description: 252 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760879747 (paperback)
- 2000-2099
- Loneliness
- Manners and customs
- Social isolation
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Social isolation -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Missing persons -- Japan -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Japan -- Fiction
- Loneliness -- Japan -- Fiction
- Social isolation -- Japan -- Fiction
- Recluses -- Japan -- Fiction
- Recluses -- Fiction
- Loneliness -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Marriage -- Fiction
- Hikikomori -- Fiction
- Japan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction
- Japan
- Japan -- Fiction
- Fiction
- A823.4 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BRA | Available | 063444 |
Mai and Hikaru went to school together in the city of Nagoya, until Hikaru disappeared when they were eighteen. It is not until ten years later, when Mai runs into Hikaru's mother, Hiromi Sato, that Mai learns he became a hikikomori, a recluse unable to leave his bedroom for years. In secret, Hiromi Sato hires Mai as a 'rental sister', to write letters to Hikaru and encourage him to leave his room. Mai has recently married J, a devoted salaryman with conservative ideas about the kind of wife Mai will be. The renewed contact with her old school friend, Hikaru, stirs Mai's feelings of invisibility within her marriage. She is frustrated with her life and knows she will never fulfil J's obsession with the perfect wife and mother. What else is there for Mai to do but to disappear herself?