Niwa - Sewing Machine and Goldfish [Chinese]

By [日]永井美糸

Grandma Yoshiaki Yasuda is old and senile, and also suffers from cognitive impairment, and struggles to get out of bed in the morning to go to the bathroom, but still insists on living in her own house. Her life is divided into three kinds of days: days with in-home care, days when she goes to a daycare center, and days when her deceased son's wife comes over. She is drowsy and rambling in the chaos of reality and memories, gradually losing her ability to take care of herself and moving towards the end of her life, while at the same time allowing her thoughts to jump back and pull out the past, perceiving the traces of happiness and despair, abandonment and guardianship in her dead life... In her story, the sewing machine is about survival and the goldfish points to love; the sewing machine gives her In her story, the sewing machine is about survival, and the goldfish points to love; the sewing machine gives her dignity and freedom, and the goldfish gives her the obsession to live.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 757262071X
• ISBN13: 9787572620713
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Hu Nan Wen Yi Chu Ban She
• Length: 128 Pages