Things Remembered and Things Forgotten aims to shine light on the undertones of wartime devastation affecting Tokyo even to this day. In this collection of ten stories written by award winning author Kyoko Nakajima, men and women are victims of cultural amnesia. These people are unaware of how haunted they are, be it by memories of war, tradition, or by spirits of their recent past. As stated by David Pearce, author of Tokyo Year Zero, this work is “a perfect introduction to the quiet, subtle brilliance of Kyoko Nakajima”. Translated by Ian MacDonald and Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Kyoko Nakajima was born in 1964 in Suginami, Tokyo. Once she graduated from university, for several years she worked as an editor in the publishing industry at a number of firms such as Cawaii!. By 2003 (having moved on from editing) she made her debut as an author with Futon and has continued to write alongside detailing her opinions on contemporary culture and politics for Mainichi Shimbun to the present day. Her 2010 novel The Little House received the 143rd Naoki literature prize.

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