Spinning Clouds

by Yuki Ibuki

The 163rd first half of 2020 Naoki Prize nomation works. A mother and her daughter who cannot understand each other. Can a destroyed family be together again? A story about three-generation family running a homespun wool yarn business.

Hardcover

Published January 23, 2020

About the author

伊吹有喜

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

雲を紡ぐ/Kumo o tsumugu/Spinning Clouds, by Ibuki Yuki. (Official English title seems to be _Spun from the Clouds_.) The “spinning”/tsumugu of the title is the verb used to express the process of turning wool into yarn. A coming of age story centered on a high school student who runs away from bullying at school and tensions at home in Tokyo to join her grandfather in the northern Japanese city of Morioka (recently featured in the New York Times). Lots of interesting info on home-spun garment making.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cuốn sách buộc mình phải chậm lại. Bởi cách duy nhất để giải quyết những vấn đề ấy là thời gian và sự thấu hiểu.

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dũng cảm hơn khi đối mặt trở ngại, nhẫn nhịn và iu thương hơn với người thân yêu, và hết mình với những thứ mình yêu thích.