Watersong, Clarissa Goenawan
Watersong, Clarissa Goenawan
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Watersong

Author: Clarissa Goenawan

Narrator: David Shih

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2023


Synopsis

A mesmerizing novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan.

When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found.

Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away from three women with water in their names, he travels to Tokyo, where he tries in vain to track Youko down. But Shouji soon realizes that not everything Youko told him about herself was true. Who is the real woman he once lived with and loved, and where could she be hiding?

Watersong is a spellbinding novel of loves lost and recovered, of secrets never spoken, and of how our pasts shape our futures.

About Clarissa Goenawan

Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer. She studied novel-writing with the Curtis Brown Creative and was formerly a mentee on the WoMentoring Project. Her first novel, Rainbirds, is the winner of the 2015 Bath Novel Award. Her short stories have won several awards and been published in various literary magazines and anthologies. She loves rainy days, pretty books, and hot green tea.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Utha

Karena selalu bermimpi tenggelam, Shouji dibawa ibunya menemui tabib. Kemudian tabib itu berkata kalau Shouji nantinya akan bertemu 3 wanita berunsur air, yang mana salah satunya mungkin belahan jiwa. Bertahun-tahun kemudian, Shouji tumbuh menjadi pria cerdas, lulusan Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Was......more

Najgorsza książka Goenawan, tylko że w jej przypadku 'najgorsza' oznacza 4 gwiazdki, a nie 5. Wciąż jest to więc książka co najmniej świetna - pięknie napisana, cudownie poprowadzona, zachwycająca fabułą. Ostatnie kilkadziesiąt stron jednak troszkę wymęczyłam, choć samo zakończenie miażdży. Z powodu......more

4.5* TL;DR: I recommend this if you like likable characters and stories with mysteries that will keep you wondering. I'm finally sitting down to write this review after a few weeks and I still think back to it and remember how much I liked it. I absolutely adored Clarissa Goenawan's second book, The P......more