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Author: Yuko Tsushima ,
Geraldine Harcourt
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.101kg
ISBN: 9780241312629
ISBN 10: 0241312620
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 04 April 2019
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Language: Japanese
Reviews
Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity. -- Kris Kosaka * Japan Times * Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality -- Margaret Drabble * BBC Radio 3 * Spiky, atmospheric and intimate, filled with moments of strangeness that linger in the mind * The Spectator * In this short, powerful novel lurk the joy and guilt of single parents everywhere * Guardian * This exquisite and poignant novel . . . will resonate with single mothers always and everywhere -- Shami Chakrabarti An extraordinary book . . . cool analytic intelligence propelled by sudden eruptions of passion -- Lisa Appignanesi An astonishing and exquisite masterpiece about love, motherhood, female independence, and the restoration of a damaged family. Yuko Tsushima is an unforgettable name alongside great masters like Virginia Woolf, Alice Munro and Elizabeth Strout -- J. M. Lee, author of The Investigation Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality -- Margaret Drabble
Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality -- Margaret Drabble An astonishing and exquisite masterpiece about love, motherhood, female independence, and the restoration of a damaged family. Yuko Tsushima is an unforgettable name alongside great masters like Virginia Woolf, Alice Munro and Elizabeth Strout -- J. M. Lee, author of The Investigation An extraordinary book . . . cool analytic intelligence propelled by sudden eruptions of passion -- Lisa Appignanesi This exquisite and poignant novel . . . will resonate with single mothers always and everywhere -- Shami Chakrabarti In this short, powerful novel lurk the joy and guilt of single parents everywhere * Guardian * Spiky, atmospheric and intimate, filled with moments of strangeness that linger in the mind * The Spectator * Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality -- Margaret Drabble * BBC Radio 3 * Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity. -- Kris Kosaka * Japan Times *
Author Information
Yuko Tsushima (Author) Yuko Tsushima was born in Tokyo in 1947, the daughter of the novelist Osamu Dazai, who took his own life when she was one year old. Her prolific literary career began with her first collection of short stories, Shaniku-sai (Carnival), which she published at the age of twenty-four. She won many awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature (1977), the Kawabata Prize (1983) and the Tanizaki Prize (1998). She died in 2016.
