“Two lonely souls, skipping obligations, meet in a Tokyo garden and quietly change each other's lives.”
The Garden of Words
小説 言の葉の庭
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Two lonely souls, skipping obligations, meet in a Tokyo garden and quietly change each other's lives.
On rainy mornings, Takao can never bring himself to go to school—instead, he spends that time at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen gardens and finds a brief reprieve from everything else in his life among the trees and flowers. And on one of those mornings, he discovers a mysterious woman named Yukino in his haven, skipping work, and an unlikely friendship blooms between them. But though these two are the center of this story, they are far from the only ones trying to find their way in life. (Source: Yen Press)
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A Novel Publication
- Format 11 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 28m approx
- Published Aug 2013 – Apr 2014
- Source Novel media type
- Ref. BS-M47837 catalog