Jean and her sister Colette find their lives put in turmoil by the return of a Japanese pianist whom they both idolized as adolescents
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Originally published in 1985, A Certain Mr. Takahashi won the coveted Seal First Novel Award and the Books in Canada / Smith First Novel Award.
Ann Ireland is the author of A Certain Mr. Takahashi (winner of the Seal First Novel Award), and Exile (shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize). The first edition of her novel The Instructor was a finalist for the Ontario Trillium Award. She lives in Toronto.
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