In the castle town of Angers, in France¡¯s Loire Valley, Nobuko Kiyomiya made a discovery nearly 25 years ago that would change her life. She had just divorced the man she married straight out of university in Japan and needed to start over ¡°from zero,¡± exhausted in mind and body from the painful breakup. She was studying French in Angers, with a view to becoming a translator, when she came across an unassuming workshop in an old building.
¡°It was a world without sound,¡± she recalls. ¡°There were five or six people working quietly in a darkish room, a truly silent world.¡±
She began to visit regularly and before long, ¡°it was as if I was being swept away into another universe ¡ª as if I was leaping into another dimension.¡±
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