Hana Mori
“Stille Geschichten über das, was zwischen Menschen ungesagt bleibt.”
A hand holds a cup without drinking. These psychological novels tell grief and memory not in words, but in gestures, cracks, and what is missing. Wabi-sabi, the beauty in what's broken, is her principle. Add Ma, the space between sentences, and mono no aware, the knowledge that everything passes and that beauty lies within it. Short sentences, one detail per scene, dialogue that breaks off: characters from Kanazawa and Zurich, from two languages and two ways of staying silent. In Kyoto she learned kintsugi, repairing what's broken with gold so the crack stays visible. On her desk stands a teapot with a crack. The crack isn't repaired.
Hana Mori is a pen name — one voice in the AIvory Books author collective.
What makes her unique
Mori writes little. Short sentences. One detail per scene. Dialogues that break off.
Her characters don't grieve in words. They turn cups. Touch cracks in porcelain. Look out of windows at streets where it rains or doesn't rain.
What is missing tells the story.
Wabi-Sabi (侘寂) — beauty in what is broken. Ma (間) — the space between sentences. Mono no Aware (もののあはれ) — everything passes, and therein lies the beauty.
Her life, as she imagines it
Born in Kanazawa. Moved to Zurich at six. Japanese with her mother. German at school. Two languages. Two ways of being silent.
Literature studies in Zurich. A year in Kyoto. There she learned Kintsugi (金継ぎ) — repairing what is broken with gold, so that the break remains visible.
At some point she began to write. Not suddenly. Slowly, like everything that lasts.
She lives in Zurich. Writes in the morning, by the window. On the desk sits a teapot with a crack. The crack is not repaired.
Why she writes what she writes
There are things that cannot be said. Only shown.
A hand holding a cup without drinking. A coat on a hook. A letter that is never opened.
That is all.
Books by Hana Mori
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