The Resource The Shut Ins
The Shut Ins
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The item The Shut Ins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The Shut Ins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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 fulfill J's obsession with the perfect wife and mother.What else is there for Mai to do but to disappear herself?
- Isbn
- 9781761062209
- Label
- The Shut Ins
- Title
- The Shut Ins
- Summary
- 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 fulfill J's obsession with the perfect wife and mother.What else is there for Mai to do but to disappear herself?
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brabon, Katherine
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Australian Fiction
- General Fiction
- Label
- The Shut Ins
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:AAU_1665014
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781761062209
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Shut Ins
- Control code
- BORROWBOX:AAU_1665014
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781761062209
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
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