# A Quiet Place

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- Book: [A Quiet Place](https://www.bookquiver.com/seicho-matsumoto/a-quiet-place) ([A Quiet Place.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/seicho-matsumoto/a-quiet-place.md))
- Authors: [Seichō Matsumoto](https://www.bookquiver.com/seicho-matsumoto)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4174-420-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2025-08-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife, who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighbourhood? When Tsuneo goes to apologize to the boutique owner for the trouble caused by his wife's death he discovers the villa Tachibana near by, a house known to be a meeting place for secret lovers. As he digs deeper into his wife's recent past, he must eventually conclude that she led a double life...