tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195252471961511941.post2572315936372701422..comments2023-12-17T00:58:56.172+01:00Comments on NGboo Art: Omoide no Marnie (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)Nikola Gocićhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802422474421337350noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3195252471961511941.post-32771355078814444302015-08-05T17:56:53.355+02:002015-08-05T17:56:53.355+02:00"Thirty years after the book was published, I..."Thirty years after the book was published, I heard how a Japanese man had recently arrived in the village looking for ‘Little Overton’. Many years before, as a young teenager, he had read When Marnie Was There in Japanese. The book had made a great impression on him and he very much wanted to see the place where the story was set. It was the end of September and he had booked a tour from Japan to London for a few nights. He spoke very little English and he had no idea where ‘Little Overton’ was. All he had was a copy of the book as his guide. So he took the train to King’s Lynn, as Anna had done; and finally caught the bus that goes along the coast. The bus was full of people, who were all very kind – but no one knew where ‘Little Overton’ was. At each stop the passengers got off until he was the only person left. He began to get rather anxious. Then as the bus turned he saw the windmill.<br />“Stop, stop!” he said, “This must be it!” And he leapt off the bus. But the village wasn’t ‘Little Overton’, it was Burnham Overy.<br />He made his way to the pub. There the landlord assured him that he had found the right place, and took him down to the creek. He was thrilled to be there at last. To see the tide rising, the boats swinging at anchor, the wild marsh and birds and the house that had been the start of it all.<br />That evening, while looking for somewhere to stay, he passed a house with a Japanese name. He met a lady there who could not only understand the story of his journey, but was also from the same place in Japan."<br />A postscript of book by Deborah Sheppard, the daughter of the author. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00943089854311607526noreply@blogger.com