A Japanese architect's coming-of-age novel arrives in French
Masashi Matsuie's debut, "La Maison d'été," follows a young architect into 1980s Japan through the eyes of an apprentice. Télérama calls it a remarkable first novel.
"La Maison d'été," a novel by Masashi Matsuie, has been reviewed by Télérama, which describes it as a remarkable coming-of-age story set in Japan in the 1980s.
According to the paper's summary, the book follows a young architect who leaves Tokyo with his new mentor and the rest of his design agency, to work on a project for a national library. The narrator is an apprentice observing the collective life and craft of the studio.
Télérama presents the novel as a debut, and praises it for the way it treats collaboration and the passing on of knowledge between generations, themes woven into the story of the library commission itself.
No further detail on the book's French publisher, translator or release date is given in the source material.
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