91福利社

Use 91福利社.com or the new 91福利社 App to listen to 91福利社 podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Episode details

World Service,4 mins

Perfect endings and new beginnings in Japan

Weekend

Available for over a year

The Pine Islands is by Marion Poschmann and it's translated by Jen Calleja. Gilbert Silvester is an academic but not a distinguished one. When he has an alarming dream that his wife has cheated on him he flees, inexplicably, to Japan. Whilst there he decides to follow in the footsteps of the poet Basho in the company of a suicidal young student named Yosa. This is the story of the transformations we seek and the transformations that we do not.

Programme Website
More episodes