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Strangers (Japanese title Ijintachi to no natsu 異人たちとの夏 Summer of the Strange People) is a novel by Taichi Yamada, published in 1987. The English translation by Wayne Lammers was published in 2003.

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Strangers (Japanese title Ijintachi to no natsu 異人たちとの夏 Summer of the Strange People) is a novel by Taichi Yamada, published in 1987. The English translation by Wayne Lammers was published in 2003. The Japanese original won the 1987 Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize for best human-interest novel. The English translation was one of sixteen works long-listed for the 2006 Foreign Fiction prize awarded by The Independent. Ijintachi to no natsu has also been translated into German as Sommer mit Fremden, French as Présences d'un été and Swedish as Främlingar (2009). A film based on the novel, The Discarnates, directed by Obayashi Nobuhiko, was released in 1988.

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Notable quotes

“I told you when I came I was a stranger.”
— Leonard Cohen in "The Stranger Song" (1966)
“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”
— Catherine Doherty, Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15
“People are strange when you're a stranger.”
— Jim Morrison, "People Are Strange", Strange Days (1967)
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
— Paul of Tarsus, Hebrews 13:2 (KJV)
“He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Collected short stories 1, "The pool", p. 127
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
— Tennessee Williams; said by his character Blanche DuBois, in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

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