The Accidentals - Guadalupe Nettel the haiku was originally a

the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries

as this gentle timeless train carries each one forward towards the person they intend to become

Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851

intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two

But Amane falls in line with society's way of thinking and wants a regular 'clean' marriage

The Accidentals - Guadalupe Nettel the haiku was originally aWhen an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an accidental, an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary courses of their lives disrupted by an unexpected event and are pushed into unfamiliar terrain: a girl encounters her uncle in hospital, who was cast out of the family for reasons unknown; a menacing force hovers over a fracturing family on a rural holiday; a couple and