El Silk Road
Angélica Liddell

NOVEL | 2026 | 320 pages

A gaijin, struck mute by the need to find something to hold on to, ventures into the streets of Asakusa. She seeks a sense of belonging, but cannot find it. The city of Tokyo, marked by the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, watches over the neighbourhood: old cafés, incense, hungry spirits, prostitution, poverty, temples, suicides, bodies that appear and disappear. And, in the heart of Asakusa, the Silk Road, a café suspended in time where objects have souls and intimacy aches like an amputated limb. The Silk Road is the death of the imperceptible, the shadow of a pine tree upon the snow. At the Silk Road, to love and to die are one and the same. Everything there is the past. In the same way there are things that only appear in dreams, there are things that only appear at the Silk Road.

 

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“Through the ways in which she constructs implausible plots, plays on our fear and revulsion, yet also intoxicates us, Liddell’s clairvoyance prevails. You come away from her prose fattened like a hog on the eve of the knife: pleasure and pain in every line.”
— Luna Miguel