Ryoko Sekiguchi is a Japanese writer living in France, the author of two dozen books of poetry, prose, and essays written in Japanese and French. Her favorite theme can be described as the languages ​​of emotion—seemingly self-explanatory, common to all people regardless of their nationality or place of residence, yet unique to each person and often inexpressible in words. These languages ​​include tastes, smells, and experiences.

Nagori is the Japanese word for the end of the season, for everything late, belated, passing from reality into memory. Outlining the vague contours of this concept, important for the Japanese attitude to food, poetry (haiku), and time, the author draws us into an alluring twilight limbo—the borderland between man and nature, personal experience and the movement of history, life and death.

Author: Ryoko Sekiguchi
Publishing House: Ad Marginem
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 144
Cover type: paperback
Translator: Alina Popova
Editor: Alexey Shestakov
Illustrator: Stepan Lipatov