'The Peninsula of Twenty-Four Seasons', by Mayumi Inaba: an emotional and spiritual opening to natural life. The novel, starring a middle-aged woman who settles with her cat on the remote Japanese peninsula of Shima, addresses access to knowledge through the perception of what is different.
The action takes place throughout the year divided into 24 seasons and that variety is the driving force of the novel's action. It is a story as slow and suggestive as the course of the 24 seasons that both she and her readers must have deserved.