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Book review: The Summer House by Masashi Matsuie is a quiet ode to Japanese architecture
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Masashi Matsuie's debut novel The Summer House won the prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature, an honour typically reserved for veterans.
PHOTOS: OTHER PRESS LLC, TARO TERASAWA
By Masashi Matsuie, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Other Press/Fiction/400 pages/$29.98
The Summer House is, as a testament to the artistry of Japanese architecture, published just as Japanese design is gaining global attention. But what exactly defines a building as “quintessentially Japanese”?
