Forever Forest Upper Field by Setsuko Adachi

中村和恵、中村たまら、かっちゃん、たまちゃん、銭湯かっぱちゃんなど
いろいろ呼ばれておりますが
どの名前もたまたま存在しているわたしの輪郭を、ある程度まで把握していただいているだけで、一把につかむもの… 棚の紹介を読む

代々木上原在住の足立節子さんが英語で歩き語る東京。そうです、代々木上原、Forever Forest Upper Field. Delere Press 2nd edition, with beautiful photo images by Michael Kearney. Delere Press による本書の紹介は以下のとおり。
"Incisive and loving at the same time, Forever Forest Upper Field paints a portrait of Japan from a perspective that, like the elephant in the room, is almost never breached nor openly admitted, but rather felt through the bodies of the haunting and unnamed characters traversing through the lonely landscapes and vacant city squares in the prose-sketches, full of human warmth in the pockets of spaces remaining where the governing forces have not yet rendered them lifeless, glowing in the deep of the night, that read like the voice of a lighthouse in the uncomfortable silence."