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In Pursuit of Lavender by Akiko Itoyama; Charles De Wolf is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this novel-length road story, the female protagonist, who is haunted by an audio hallucination 'twenty yards of linen are worth a coat' that plays over and over in her mind, escapes from a mental hospital with a young man. This is the story of their journey together. The hallucinatory words come from a passage in Marx's Das Kapital, but the protagonist knows nothing of that; nor does she understand what they literally mean. After she starts to hear them, she attempts suicide and is then diagnosed as manic and placed in a mental hospital. Unable to stand life in the prison-like hospital, she makes a daring escape with Nagoyan, another patient. She is 21 and fluent in the Hakata dialect of northern Kyushu. Nagoyan is a 24-year-old company employee suffering from depression who insists that he is a native of Tokyo, though he is actually from Nagoya. This strange pair, just escaped from their Hakata hospital, struggle with the mental crises that constantly assault them as they head southward in a junky car, picking destinations at whim as they go. On the way, they sightsee, quarrel, and yearn for the fragrance of lavender, which is supposedly good for the emotions. At last they re

Who reads In Pursuit of Lavender?

Author

Akiko Itoyama; Charles De Wolf

Publisher

Thames River Press; Anthem Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857280466

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.27 / 5 (20 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14