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Original Title: | いま、会いにゆきます |
Edition Language: | Japanese |
Takuji Ichikawa
Hard Cover | Pages: 417 pages Rating: 3.92 | 1760 Users | 226 Reviews
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Title | : | Be With You 今会いにゆきます |
Author | : | Takuji Ichikawa |
Book Format | : | Hard Cover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 417 pages |
Published | : | 2007 by VIZ (first published 2003) |
Categories | : | Cultural. Japan. Romance. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Fantasy. Literature |
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There are not enough words to describe how awesome this book is! I finished reading it in 2 hours and it has really taught me a lot about life and love. My favourite part was Mio's letter. If you knew you would die at the age of 29 but get to be with the man you love and a son you will have, would you choose to live that life? Or would you rather marry some other guy and live till the ripe old age of 80? Takkun may seem like a quirky guy with all his flaws but you will fall in love with him and be able to relate to his pain of losing his wife and knowing that he will lose her again. I teared throughout the book which is something that I have never done before, "Be With You" is a really special book. Highly recommended! :DRating Regarding Books Be With You 今会いにゆきます
Ratings: 3.92 From 1760 Users | 226 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books Be With You 今会いにゆきます
[This is an old review I'm just now adding to GR.]I vaguely remember seeing the cover of this book several years ago and being intrigued. I hoped I would enjoy it, but I've been burned by so many English translations of Japanese novels. Happily, this turned out to be one of the good ones. Be With You is told primarily from Takumi's perspective. Takumi is a widower with a six-year-old child named Yuji. In the year since his wife died, he has tried to keep going, do his work, and be a goodThis is a wonderful book. I got interested in it because when I was in Japan in April 2006, my friend D and I watched the film version on TV in our hotel. We didn't really know what was going on because there were no subtitles, so we could only catch some dialogue now and again, but the quiet feeling of the movie really spoke to me. I kept checking into it, and eventually found out that Viz Media was translating the book and also releasing the movie here.Like with most translated works, the
A nice love story with surprised ending. Very nice book.
My theme of death continues with this book and coincidentally three of my dreams this week have had someone I know die in them too, I didn't seem overly upset at that! This is a sad tale of loss, love and parenthood. It was apparently very popular in Japan and made into a film or TV show. Whilst I enjoyed the story, I didn't love it, perhaps it was lost in translation.
Be With You is a nice sentimental piece by Ichikawa Takuji. The book is a telling presentation of life, love, and chance. It is easy enough to get through in one sitting too, although the pages run up to two-hundred and sixty. This book, described as a "ghost story", isn't the typical ghost story one finds in western or contemporary fiction. This story is much more about life than death, and more about chance than certainty.Ichikawa's style is simple and straightforward. The characters are
"Soon I won't be with you any longer, but when the rainy season returns, I will come back to see how the two of you are getting along." -MioWhen Mio died, her husband Takkun and her son Yuji mourned her death and struggled to survive. Takkun is trying to be a father and a mother all at the same time for his son Yuji. For some other widowed fathers this might be an easy thing to do, but for him it's just not. A life without Mio is hardly life at all. But he had to do it for his son. For a year
I just bought this in French by impulse. Couldn't find the English version anyway. Let's see if I will be able to read it when I have enough time to read things leisurely and not for a class.
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