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Can I read At the Edge of the Woods on EtoBox?
At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugu Ono, Juliet Winters Carpenter (translation), Akhil Sharma (foreword) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is At the Edge of the Woods about?
When his wife returns to her parents' house to have their 2nd child, an unnamed narrator & his son are left to manage by themselves. Instead of absence, what the father & son begin to notice is a strange noise opening up between them, reverberating through their home, their television set, & the books they read at night. The wood outside their home hums with it, too: leaves fall from branches which are already naked, trees wriggle when walked past, & the hills on the horizon rise & fall in a building rhythm. Ono's stories teeter on the edge of something unsayable, exploring repetition & contradiction to sketch compelling, otherworldly characters. The strange sound which hums through the twinned narratives is distilled in Carpenter's translation, which masterfully employs the rhythms & echoes of the English language to convey Ono's sense that something is coughing, laughing, turning under the words on the page.Design by Nigel Aono-Billson.°°° An allegory for alienation & climate catastrophe unlike any otherIn an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling into a house at the edge of the woods. But something is off. A sound, at first like coughing and then like laughter, e
Who reads At the Edge of the Woods?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Masatsugu Ono, Juliet Winters Carpenter (translation), Akhil Sharma (foreword)
- Publisher
- Two Lines Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781949641288
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, World Fiction
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14