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What happens when a character doesn’t fade after the novel ends? When their
voice keeps echoing in the author's mind, asking to be heard — again, and differently?
These 77 haiku — intimate, ironic, quietly defiant — follow that voice. Starting from everyday moments, they trace a journey
through childhood, love, rebellion, regret, and small revelations. Sometimes with laughter, sometimes with silence. It’s part reflection,
part game — and entirely human.
„It wasn’t easy convincing Peter to publish this book. But in the end, we
did.
And I think it was worth it.“
— Kate Marlowe, editor
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Three Lines, A Whole World
A haiku is just three lines — 5, 7, 5 syllables if you want to follow the rules — yet somehow it holds more
than most pages ever could. In Japan, it’s a way of stopping time for a moment: a glimpse of falling blossom, a shift in
the wind, the sound of rain that suddenly changes your thoughts.
In the West, poets have made the form their own. Jack Kerouac, for one, filled notebooks with what he called
“American haiku” — quick flashes of image and feeling, as if he were catching the world mid-breath. They didn’t
always keep to the syllable count, but they kept the same heart: a single moment, perfectly clear, before it disappears.
We chose haiku because a few words can sometimes hold more truth than a whole chapter. It felt like a perfect echo
to Nothing Before Her — a way to leave space between the lines, to let readers feel what can’t be explained.
The images of the book are born from sumi-e, the Japanese art of ink wash painting. A few brushstrokes, soft as breath,
and the rest is left to you. Like a haiku, sumi-e trusts that what’s unpainted can be as powerful as what you see.
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