In the canon
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1689
- Originally in
- Originally in Japanese
- Pages
- Pages 100
An ageing poet sells his house and walks for months into Japan's far north, leaving a trail of haiku in which every roadside, ruin and moonrise opens into a world.
The months and days are eternal travellers; the years that come and go are also wayfarers.
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